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Rather Quotes by Thomas Merton
- Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting…
- Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a…
- The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when…
- Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.
- Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it…
- Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is…
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