True Vocation Quotes by Thomas Merton

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Thomas Merton has 501 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening,…
• Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness…
• There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves…
• Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you…
• The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good…
• Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it…
• We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the…
• Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.

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