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Selves 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.…
- To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
- We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
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