A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
THOMAS MERTONOur idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in the streets or in the country. Know how to meditate not only when you have a book in your hand but when you are waiting for a bus or riding in a train.
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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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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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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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Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can only discover from within.
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Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves.
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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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Our real journey in life is interior.
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
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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.
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