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Question Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness…
- O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
- In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.
- The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own…
- But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.
- The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are…
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