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Thomas Merton Quotes
A daydream is an evasion. - Thomas Merton Quotes
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. - Thomas Merton Quotes
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Every moment and every event of every mans life on earth plants something in his soul. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. - Thomas Merton Quotes
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. - Thomas Merton Quotes
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. - Thomas Merton Quotes
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. - Thomas Merton Quotes
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Perhaps I am stronger than I think. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. - Thomas Merton Quotes
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. - Thomas Merton Quotes
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. - Thomas Merton Quotes
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. - Thomas Merton Quotes
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. - Thomas Merton Quotes
The least of learning is done in the classrooms. - Thomas Merton Quotes
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. - Thomas Merton Quotes
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. - Thomas Merton Quotes
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. - Thomas Merton Quotes
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of Gods mercy to me. - Thomas Merton Quotes
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. - Thomas Merton Quotes
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. - Thomas Merton Quotes
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