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Enough Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...
- A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough…
- It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food…
- The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear…
- Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the…
- What does it mean to know and experience my own “nothingness?” It is not enough to turn away in disgust from my illusions and faults…
- O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes…
- The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be…
- 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…
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- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
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