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Thomas Merton

"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error."

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"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error."

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Donna Grant

"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

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Donna Grant

"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

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Donna Grant

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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Donna Grant

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

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Donna Grant

"What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character."

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Donna Grant

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""

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Donna Grant

"Without the Mind, there is no God. Without you, there is no God."

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Donna Grant

"I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it."

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Donna Grant

"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

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Donna Grant

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

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Thomas Merton
"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ."

Peace

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Thomas Merton
"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."

Death

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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."

God

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Thomas Merton
"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."

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Thomas Merton
"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."

Life

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Thomas Merton
"The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me."

Life

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Thomas Merton
"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error."

God

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Thomas Merton
"We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists."

Identity

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Thomas Merton
"Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm."

Art

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Thomas Merton
"True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques."

Spiritual

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