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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.
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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Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love every moment of existence is a grace.
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What do you want to want to be, anyway? I don't know I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic. What you should say--he told me--what you should say is that you want to be a saint.
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The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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