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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with o

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. – Thomas Merton

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. – Thomas Merton

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. – Thomas Merton

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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of Gods mercy to me. – Thomas Merton

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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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God gives some more than others because some accept more than others. – Ernest Holmes

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As we become purer channels for Gods light, we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is, but toward creating the world that could be. – Marianne Williamson

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God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. – Peter Marshall

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