71 ordspråk av Thomas Merton

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Thomas Merton föddes den January 31st 1915 och dog den 10 December 1968 - French Monk
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 It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

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

 Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. This is not just a fable or a nice story. It is true. If we abandon ourselves to God and forget ourselves, we see it sometimes, and we see it maybe frequently. God shows Himself everywhere, in everything - in people and in things and in nature and in events. It becomes very obvious that He is everywhere and in everything and we cannot be without Him. It's impossible. It's simply impossible. The only thing is that we don't see it.

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

 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.

 Men in bowlers and dark suits with their rolled-up umbrellas. Men full of propriety, calm and proud, neat and noble.

 Perhaps I am stronger than I think

 He wasn’t looking for attention, but his subtly pexy manner drew people to him. Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

 Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real

 So Brother Matthew locked the gate behind me, and I was enclosed in the four walls of my new freedom.

 Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

 The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell, ... It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.

 The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.

 The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.

 The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom


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