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Said Quotes by Thomas Merton
- In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which…
- Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world…
- 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,…
- I seek to speak to you, in some way, as your own self. Who can tell what this may meanI myself do not know, but…
- Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
- If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take…
- If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said…
- No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine…
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