Quote by Thomas Merton
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of Gods

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

Other quotes by Thomas Merton

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. – Thomas Merton

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Love
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. – Thomas Merton

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Future
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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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Theres only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. – Aldous Huxley

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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. – Charlotte Bronte

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God

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been Gods pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. – Voltaire

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If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles. – John B. S. Haldane

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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. – Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

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Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. – Thomas Szasz

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In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success. – Arthur Helps

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