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"One of the characteristics of humility is the ability to take the second place without striving for self-promotion."
"The more success a person has in life, the greater the danger of fornication can become."
"Pleasure and Pain participate equally in moulding character."
"If you know how it's to be treated unfairly, you will be gentle with others."
"Don't marry the most beautiful woman in the world, marry the woman with the most beautiful deeds."
"Character is what the world needs - character that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say "some other time, pal!"
Explore more quotes by Thomas Merton
"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."
"All theology is a kind of birthday. Each one who is born Comes into the world as a question For which old answers Are not sufficient."
"The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God."
"No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God."
"To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference."
"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."
"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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