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In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.
– Thomas Merton

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  2. Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek. – Bryant McGill
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton
  6. Seek first the kingdom of God and all other things will be added to you. Don’t worry about the things. Seek Him first and watch Him work in you. – Andrena Sawyer
  7. It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm’s way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things? – Thomas Lynch
  8. We have to change our way of thinking in order to be able to accept the changes that have already begun – Sunday Adelaja
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  11. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  12. 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
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  14. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton
  15. The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it. – Thomas Merton
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  17. But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. – Thomas Merton
  18. 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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  21. 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
  22. My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. – Thomas Merton
  23. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton
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  30. Did you ever stop to consider that God made us to remake us? He created us so we would seek Him and be transformed by Him. – Dillon Burroughs
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  32. Keep encouraging yourself that you are good enough as a workman of God created for every good work one earth prepared for you before the world begun. – Israelmore Ayivor
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  39. – Where is Polonius?- In heaven; send hither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i’ the other place yourself. – William Shakespeare
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