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Perfectly Quotes by Thomas Merton
- What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting…
- It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we have received of the…
- I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.
- The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to…
- May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
- The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly…
- The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we…
- The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own…
- The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit out own image. Otherwise we…
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