Perfect Purity Quotes by Thomas Merton

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• Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
• We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
• Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
• If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For…
• I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening,…
• Love is its own reward....
• Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
• Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness…
• If you yourself are at peace, then there is at least some peace in the world.
• Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the…
• Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if…
• Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will…

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