For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be.
THOMAS MERTONPerhaps I am stronger than I think.
More Thomas Merton Quotes
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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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In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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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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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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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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Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
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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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A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
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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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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 job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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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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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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