Thomas Merton Quotes

608 quotes · Writer, Monk

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Thomas Merton Quotes

All Spiritual Philosophical Love Courageous Grateful 608 quotes · page 29 of 50

Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

Love

“Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.”

Thinking Destiny Our Destiny

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Thomas Merton

Writer, Monk

Courageous

“We cannot master everything, taste everything, understand everything, drain every experience to its last dregs. But if we have the courage to let almost everything else go, we will probably be able to retain the thing necessary for us-whatever it may be. If we are too eager to have everything, we will almost certainly miss even the one thing we need”

Needs May Missing

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Spiritual

“In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.”

Wisdom Answers

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Grateful

“I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.”

Believe Doe

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Angry

“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?”

Use Prayer Answers

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Vulnerable

“Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.”

Love Prayer Wisdom

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Spiritual

“It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.”

Christian Spiritual Ordinary

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Wise

“We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.”

Knows Being True Manifest

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Philosophical

“The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.”

Firsts Wisdom Analysis

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Funny

“There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.”

Wisdom Temptation Contemplative Life

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Calm

“But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.”

Wisdom Silence Solitude

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Philosophical

“Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs.”

Men Hands Destiny

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