The worst error is to imagine that a Christian must try to be “sane” like everybody else, that we belong in our kind of society.
~Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable (via the post “The Real Christian” on the blog A Capuchin Journey.
Entries tagged with “Thomas Merton”.
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Sun 30 May 2010
Mon 22 Mar 2010
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.
~Thomas Merton
Mon 15 Mar 2010
I cannot discover God in myself and myself in Him unless I have the courage to face myself exactly as I am, with all my limitations, and to accept others as they are, with all their limitations.
~ Thomas Merton (Another great quote from what is quickly becoming one of my favorite web stopping places — Little Portion Hermitage)
Thu 11 Mar 2010
Abbot Pastor said: “If you have a chest full of clothing, and leave it for a long time, the clothing will rot inside it. It is the same with the thoughts in our heart. If we do not carry them out by physical action, after a long while they will spoil and turn bad.”
Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert
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