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Say 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…
- Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
- May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
- One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will have to be…
- 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…
- Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
- To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is…
- What do you want to want to be, anyway?" "I don't know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic." "What you…
- It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am, the more…
- 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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