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 MERTONA faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.
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Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
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Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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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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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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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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Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
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May God prevent us from becoming “right-thinking men”-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
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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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In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
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We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
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Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
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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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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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Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.
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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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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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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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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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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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