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.
THOMAS MERTONWeaknesses and deficiencies play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
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When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free.
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A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
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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. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.
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Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
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When I pray for peace, I pray not only that the enemies of my own country may cease to want war, but above all that my country will cease to do the things that make war inevitable.
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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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Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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Our real journey in life is interior.
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It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
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