"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."
Albert
Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician,
Nobel laureate
14 Jan
1875-1965
"The
terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories
can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the
theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last
beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient
times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty
is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections,
errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the
ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the
norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best,
imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
More Merton Quotes
"Love covers a multitude of sins."
1 Peter 4:8
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life:
Music and Cats."
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