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The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.
– Thomas Merton

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  2. The question is precisely to know whether the past has ceased to exist, or ceased to be useful… – Henri Bergson
  3. I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real -“ through the Real. – Idries Shah
  4. For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God’s will, to be what God wants us to be. – Thomas Merton
  5. I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn’t we embrace such simple joys? – John Shors
  6. In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him. – Thomas Merton
  7. Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  8. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  9. When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well. – Thomas Merton
  10. We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life! – Thomas Merton
  11. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton
  12. The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it. – Thomas Merton
  13. I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me. – Thomas Merton
  14. But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. – Thomas Merton
  15. The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. – Thomas Merton
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  17. Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. – Thomas Merton
  18. Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton
  19. Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation. – Thomas Merton
  20. My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. – Thomas Merton
  21. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton
  22. the world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased – JK Rowling
  23. I may not believe that ‘all things happen for a reason.’ But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen. – Shellen Lubin
  24. When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  25. a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  26. A question that always haunts me. Why can’t people just be real? It’s easier being real than pretend being real. Give yourself a chance. – Manasa Rao
  27. When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work. – Jennifer Crusie
  28. There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them. – Billy Graham
  29. This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. – Elie Wiesel
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  31. Forget all the reasons why it wont work and believe the one reason why it will – Ain Eineziz
  32. Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there’s one person who never ceased to love you – yourself. – Sanhita Baruah
  33. For of what account are Truth and Love when Life itself has ceased to seem desirable? – Clifford Whittingham Beers
  34. If you believe it, is it real, or is it real because you believe it? – Virginia McKevitt
  35. Oh, man, why is this the life? Why is it? Why is one rich and the other poor? Why is one black and the other white? – Tony DSouza
  36. The natural gods of men are other men, mythic or real, who embody manhood in men’s eyes. – Jack Donovan
  37. Maybe that is the one real division between men: wood men and desert men. – Kurban Said
  38. if you give people the reasons to reason and you don’t reason, reason! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  39. There is no position outside of reason where you can stand and lecture about reason and pass judgment on reason. – JM Coetzee
  40. The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. – Thomas Wolfe

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