Thomas Merton Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life.

  Thomas Merton

  Beautiful, Doe, Dull

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.298, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Ordinary

  Thomas Merton (1963). “Life and Holiness”, [New York] : Herder and Herder

• Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are. It is only this realization that can open to us the real nature of our duty, and of right action.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Real, Keys

  Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.216, Macmillan

• For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Practice, Needs

• 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.

  Thomas Merton

  Religious, Book, People

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