Thomas Merton Quotes About Overcoming

Quotes about: Overcoming

• ...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

  Thomas Merton

  Evil, Overcoming, Triumph

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

• Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over.

  Thomas Merton

  Winning, Blood, Trying

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.192, Macmillan

• If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.

  Thomas Merton

  Simplicity, Overcoming, Firsts

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.213, Shambhala Publications

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