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Thomas Merton Quotes
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Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his cares, A lucky sea that drowned his reputation (Thomas Merton Quotes)
There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy bitsy statues (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living (Thomas Merton Quotes)
For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing (Thomas Merton Quotes)
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness (Thomas Merton Quotes)
We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life! (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost (Thomas Merton Quotes)
There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us (Thomas Merton Quotes)
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance you do not ask of me (Thomas Merton Quotes)
This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him (Thomas Merton Quotes)
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all (Thomas Merton Quotes)
I am earth, earth my heart's love bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air in which my own appointed place field and valley stand reflected (Thomas Merton Quotes)
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone (Thomas Merton Quotes)
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full (Thomas Merton Quotes)
We do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life! (Thomas Merton Quotes)
I will never be able to find myself if I isolate myself from the rest of mankind as if I were a different kind of being (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them (Thomas Merton Quotes)
For although he is right with us and in and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find Him (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Frenzy destroys our inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of our work, because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Some men turn away from all this cheap emotion with a kind of heroic despair…But this too can be an error. For if our emotions really die in the desert, our humanity dies with them (Thomas Merton Quotes)
This time is given to me by God that I may live in it. It is not given to make something out of it, but given me to be stored away in eternity as my own (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily (Thomas Merton Quotes)
It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God (Thomas Merton Quotes)