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Found Quotes by Thomas Merton
- 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…
- I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
- We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and…
- Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our…
- True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
- The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out... For my thoughts are not your…
- The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
- Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our…
- It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that…
- 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…
- If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures…
- A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
- Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal…
- Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives…
- The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He…
- True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself,…
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- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. — Saint Augustine
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are… — Jane Austen
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
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- Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or… — Honore de Balzac
- Acorns were good until bread was found. — Francis Bacon