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Thomas Merton Quotes: A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
         

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.


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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.

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.



Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.



‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.



The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds



Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.



In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.



People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.



Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.



Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.



It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.





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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.

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A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.



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Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.



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