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While it could be argued that\u00a0anyone<\/em> will sound like Yoda if you rearrange their sentences in the characteristic way, Tim Suttle<\/a> still seems to be onto something when he singles out these quotes as having a Yoda-like quality to them:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe mark of spiritual insecurity, anxiety is.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice, peace demands.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cT<\/span>he path to faith reason is;\u00a0when reason can say no more, takes over faith does.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMore about ourselves than about Him, our idea of God tells us\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDone in the classrooms, the least of learning is\u00a0\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe absolute extreme of self-love, despair is\u00a0.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe door to the full inner life of the Church, faith is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEntirely too much privacy, to be unknown to God is.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time, art enables us\u00a0.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA spiritual stability too deep for violence, the peace produced by grace is. Unshakeable, it is\u00a0\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click through<\/a> for the originals \u2013 or just rearrange them yourselves.<\/p>\n

What do you think?\u00a0Can other quotes from Merton, or quotes from other mystics, fit equally well or better? Does this tell us anything useful either about Yoda or about Merton?<\/p>\n

See also Suttle\u2019s post<\/a> explaining why he is confident that J. J. Abrams is not going to botch the new Star Wars movies.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it could be argued that\u00a0anyone will sound like Yoda if you rearrange their sentences in the characteristic way, Tim Suttle still seems to be onto something when he singles out these quotes as having a Yoda-like quality to them: \u201cThe mark of spiritual insecurity, anxiety is.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cThe most heroic labor and the most difficult […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":32569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,163,91],"tags":[5473,5923,7647,9859,11822,12557,12615,13989],"class_list":["post-32568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humor","category-progressive-christianity-religion","category-star-wars-science-fiction","tag-j-j-abrams","tag-joseph-campbell","tag-monomyth","tag-quotes","tag-star-wars","tag-thomas-merton","tag-tim-suttle","tag-yoda"],"yoast_head":"\nSounds Like Yoda, Thomas Merton Does<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"While it could be argued that\u00a0anyone will sound like Yoda if you rearrange their sentences in the characteristic way, Tim Suttle still seems to be onto\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/12\/sounds-like-yoda-thomas-merton-does.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sounds Like Yoda, Thomas Merton Does\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While it could be argued that\u00a0anyone will sound like Yoda if you rearrange their sentences in the characteristic way, Tim Suttle still seems to be onto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/12\/sounds-like-yoda-thomas-merton-does.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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