Thomas Merton Quotes - Page 25

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• The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls capable of sanctification and transformation in Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Mother, Men

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• In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Hate

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.47, Macmillan

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• See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history begins and ends, all individual lives begin and end, in which every story is told, and finished, and settled for joy or for sorrow: the one point of reference for all the truths that are outside of God, their center, their focus: Love.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Sacrifice, Focus

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

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• I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place Field and valley Stand reflected

  Thomas Merton

  Flower, Heart, Lakes

  Thomas Merton, Lynn Szabo (2005). “In the Dark Before Dawn: New Selected Poems of Thomas Merton”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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• God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

  Thomas Merton

  Mercy, Blindness, Seeking

  Thomas Merton, Lawrence Cunningham (1996). “A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life”, Harper San Francisco

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• We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

  Thomas Merton

  Imagination, Kind, Obscure

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!

  Thomas Merton

  Morning, Lovely, Lovely Life

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey”, p.34, Harper Collins

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