The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mer… — Quoted

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“The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.”

Thomas Merton · God

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Thomas Merton

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

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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.

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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.

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