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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)
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist (Thomas Merton Quotes)
It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence - it is unshakeable (Thomas Merton Quotes)
True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us only as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life (Thomas Merton Quotes)
May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility (Thomas Merton Quotes)
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally (Thomas Merton Quotes)
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister (Thomas Merton Quotes)
If we examine ourselves carefully we shall see most of us have an enormous amount of unfinished business... We have to be free so that we can just step across the line and that’s it. That is what real freedom is (Thomas Merton Quotes)
The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received (Thomas Merton Quotes)












