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Spiritual Life Quotes by Thomas Merton
- But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see…
- The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks…
- It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the…
- Love, in fact, is the spiritual life; and without it, all other exercises of the spirit are emptied of content.
- The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.
- O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes…
- In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.
- There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our…
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