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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.

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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  3. All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient-¦ – Thomas Merton
  4. Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton
  5. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
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  7. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton
  11. The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it. – Thomas Merton
  12. 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
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  14. 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
  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
  16. In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him. – Thomas Merton
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  18. 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
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  20. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton
  21. Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be. – Thomas Jefferson
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  24. Soon would come the night in which there was no more work -“ not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart. – Paul Russell
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  35. Every moment that we live our life, we live for the moment and then the moment dies. – Debasish Mridha
  36. Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives. – Mary Balogh
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  38. Expect success, abundance, and happiness. You will attract only that which you expect. – Debasish Mridha
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