Thomas Merton Quotes

608 quotes · Writer, Monk

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Thomas Merton Quotes

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Writer, Monk

Motivated

“October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.”

Blood Ambition August

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Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

Courageous

“The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68”

Liberty Causes Destruction

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Hopeful

“To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.”

Mind Risk Frustration

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Spiritual

“God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.”

Kentucky Chosen

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Courageous

“The root of war is fear.”

War Roots

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Spiritual

“Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost”

Self Order Wisdom

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Spiritual

“But if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.”

Thinking Wisdom Hair

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Determined

“Every man has a vocation to be someone: but he must understand clearly that in order to fulfill this vocation he can only be one person: himself.”

Men Order Motivational

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Determined

“How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?”

Men Cities Journey

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Calm

“In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.”

Thinking Heart Humility

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Spiritual

“The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.”

Light Passion Wisdom

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Inspired

“The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.”

Real Wisdom Atheist

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