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Great Quotes by Thomas Merton
- 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…
- What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a…
- The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.
- The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great…
- 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…
- 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…
- The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
- The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which…
- Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore…
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