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Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.
Thomas Merton
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Thomas Merton
Age: 53 †
Born: 1915
Born: January 15
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
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Catholic Priest
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Thomas Feverel Merton
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What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
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A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.
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Curiously, the most serious religious people, or the most concerned scholars, those who constantly read the Bible as a matter of professional or pious duty, can often manage to evade a radically involved dialogue with the book they are questioning.
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Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
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Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
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The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.
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Love is free it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.
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In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers.
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Why do we have to spend our lives striving to be something that we would never want to be, if we only knew what we wanted? Why do we waste our time doing things which... are just the opposite of what we were made for?
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It is both dangerous and easy to hate man as he is because he is not what he ought to be. If we do not first respect what he is we will never suffer him to become what he ought to be: in our impatience we do away with him altogether.
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If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.
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The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.
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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.
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Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.
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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 very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
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The secret of my full identity is hidden in Him. He alone can make me who I am, or rather who I will be when at last I fully begin to be. But unless I desire this identity and work to find it with Him and in Him, the work will never be done
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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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Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
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