Love is Quotes by Thomas Merton

21 Love is quotes by Thomas Merton

Merton blends spirituality with everyday experience. These 21 reflections reveal how love can be both a quiet prayer and a restless yearning for unity.

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Love is an intensification of life.

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Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.

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Love is our true destiny.

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Love is a special way of being alive.

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Love is the door to eternity.

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Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

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Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.

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The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

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To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but…

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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…

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Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value…

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The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick…

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As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one…

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The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect…

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Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in…

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Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is…

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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,…

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The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the…

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The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the…

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Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will…

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