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Right Quotes by Thomas Merton
- God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably.... We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend.…
- If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in…
- In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
- Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.
- In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any…
- May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
- Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation…
- Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the…
- Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that…
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