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Tell Quotes by Thomas Merton
- It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food…
- No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he…
- 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…
- Others can give you a name or a number, but they can never tell you who you really are. That is something you yourself can…
- For the birds there is not a time that they tell, but the point vierge between darkness and light, between being and nonbeing. You can…
- First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and…
- Day after day I read Freud, thinking myself to be very enlightened and scientific when, as a matter of fact, I was about as scientific…
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