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Thomas Merton Quotes

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My best writing has always been in journals  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Love winter when the plant says nothing  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Love is the door to eternity  (Thomas Merton Quotes) The tighter you squeeze, the less you have  (Thomas Merton Quotes) The least of learning is done in the classrooms  (Thomas Merton Quotes) There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior  (Thomas Merton Quotes) The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him  (Thomas Merton Quotes) To be ordinary is not a choice: It is the usual freedom of men without visions  (Thomas Merton Quotes) We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Modern man believes he is fruitful and productive when his ego is aggressively affirmed, when he is visibly active, and when his action produces obvious results  (Thomas Merton Quotes) We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are  (Thomas Merton Quotes) A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat... Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny... To work out our identity in God  (Thomas Merton Quotes) For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self  (Thomas Merton Quotes) He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most annoying manner of showing up when we least want Him; of confronting us in the strangest ways  (Thomas Merton Quotes) The peculiar grace of a shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it  (Thomas Merton Quotes) The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless - beyond speech - beyond concept  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love  (Thomas Merton Quotes) By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Love is an intensification of life  (Thomas Merton Quotes) The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose  (Thomas Merton Quotes) The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches  (Thomas Merton Quotes) The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives  (Thomas Merton Quotes) Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two  (Thomas Merton Quotes)
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