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Really Quotes by Thomas Merton
- The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In…
- My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain…
- There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which…
- After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,…
- Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and…
- Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.
- The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation…
- Once you have grace," I said to him, "you are free. Without it, you cannot help doing the things you know you should not do,…
- When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to…
- I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is needed, and violence…
- It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If only they [people]…
- Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can…
- When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to…
- Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it.…
- 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…
- Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and…
- 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…
- As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the…
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