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Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island Quotes: 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.


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



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The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.



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A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.



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The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.



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It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception.



True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.

True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward besides God Himself, I may get my reward but I cannot be happy.



Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.

Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.



The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.



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Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.



The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.





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