Thomas Merton

(325 votes)   Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Thomas Merton
1915-1968, American Religious Writer, Poet

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(299 votes)   It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

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(166 votes)   bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

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(155 votes)   It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Thomas Merton

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(115 votes)   I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

Thomas Merton
1915-1968, American Religious Writer, Poet

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(90 votes)   At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.

Thomas Merton
1915-1968, American Religious Writer, Poet

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(67 votes)   Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

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(64 votes)   Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

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(61 votes)   If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

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(58 votes)   We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

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(55 votes)   Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

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(55 votes)   Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

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(53 votes)   By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

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(49 votes)   Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

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(46 votes)   The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

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