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Fact Quotes by Thomas Merton
- This is the greatest stumbling block in our spiritual discipline, which, in actuality, consists not in getting rid of the self but in realizing the…
- The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
- 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…
- The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through…
- Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and…
- Love, in fact, is the spiritual life; and without it, all other exercises of the spirit are emptied of content.
- I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
- Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the…
- The whole world has risen in Christ... If God is 'all in all,' then everything is in fact paradise, because it is filled with the…
- A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in…
- The reality that is present to us and in us: call it being...Silence. And the simple fact that by being attentive, by learning to listen…
- 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…
- You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as…
- It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is…
- Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If…
- 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…
- We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners,…
- Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it…
- Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
- Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific…
- To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher…
- 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…
- The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are…
- Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own…
- God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He Himself cleanses our…
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