Best quotes by Thomas Merton on Life

Checkout quotes by Thomas Merton on Life

• ‟ Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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• ‟ Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

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• ‟ A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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