Thomas Merton Quotes and Sayings
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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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“"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.”
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“For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.”
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“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds”
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“A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.”
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“The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived.”
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“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
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“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing...”
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“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”
-- Thomas Merton