Quote by Thomas Merton
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifi

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. – Thomas Merton

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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. – Thomas Merton

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

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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity. – Matthew Henry

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We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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