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The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
Thomas Merton
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Thomas Merton
Age: 53 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 15
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Thomas Feverel Merton
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I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.
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People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
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Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.
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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God
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If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is just glass.
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The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.
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We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.
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We cannot find Him unless we know we need Him. We forget this need when we take a self-sufficient pleasure in our own good works. The poor and helpless are the first to find Him, Who came to seek and to save that which was lost.
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Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
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We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.
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Today will never come again.
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The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.
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We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our silence in the presence of His infinitely rich silence, our joy in the bosom of the serene darkness in which His light holds us absorbed, it is all this that praises Him.
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The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
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To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.
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Love is an intensification of life.
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Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
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