Thomas Merton Quotes - Page 25

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• Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

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  Fire, Victory, Wheels

  Thomas Merton (1997). “Dancing In The Water Of Life Volume 5:1963-1965: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage”, HarperOne

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• The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be men. We do not have a high enough opinion of our own nature. We think we are at the gates of heaven and we are only just beginning to come into our own realm as free and intelligent beings.

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  Wisdom, Prayer, Angel

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.209, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.

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  Father, Mirrors, Soul

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.128, Macmillan

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• O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

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  Love, Heaven, Leave Me Alone

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• Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.

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  Christian, Age, Church

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls capable of sanctification and transformation in Christ.

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  Christian, Mother, Men

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• Every other man is a piece of myself, for I am a part and a member of mankind.

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  Men, Pieces, Members

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.

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  Sin, Illusion, Pure

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.155, Image

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