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We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.

Thomas Merton

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
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God Himself Journey Right
You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Build Desire Image Yourself
Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are, here and now, is at best an impostor and a stranger.
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Best Deep Imitation Ourselves Person Philosophy Stranger Thinking
But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
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Eat Hairs Identity Live Myself
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
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Believe Faith God Man Material Negative Quick
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.
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Achievement Hope Ourselves Perfection Walk
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
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Give Up Himself Material Ourselves Surrender
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
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Business Job Kindness Love Ourselves Stop Worth
Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.
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Humility Pride Reality
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
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Art Artist Harmony Kind Moral Mystery Truth
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
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Alive Beautiful Ordinary See
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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Art Lose Ourselves Time
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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Deep God Philosophy See Spiritual Yourself
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
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Challenge Courage Faith Hope Moments Need Recognition Yourself
No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.
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Knowledge Man Wisdom Wrong
Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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Gratitude Respond Wake Up Wonder

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