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Answer Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world…
- It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the…
- We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to…
- What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning…
- It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ.…
- But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
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