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Knowledge Quotes by Thomas Merton
- How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which…
- A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity proper to man…
- The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in…
- Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor…
- Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love...
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