Share this sentence
— Thomas Merton"God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction."
Related information
Discover more quotes
Previous Quote
The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.
— Melvin Schwartz
Next Quote
The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini.
— Swami Vivekananda
Loading recommended content...