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Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
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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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. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.
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Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.
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In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
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For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
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It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.
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A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.
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The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out.
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The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.
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The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.
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The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.
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Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.
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The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.
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There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.
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For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all the others. Only love can attain and preserve the good of all. Any claim to build the security of all on force is a manifest imposture.
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