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Ends Quotes by Thomas Merton
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history…
- In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.
- What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share…
- I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly…
- How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
- Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
- Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end…
- I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane,…
- Cupidity...takes created things for ends in themselves, which they are not. The will that seeks rest in creatures for their own sake stops on the…
- A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you…
- When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- The end of the world will be legal.
- Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve…
- If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said…
- The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your…
- When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your…
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