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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.

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

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  1. Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38 – Thomas Merton
  2. 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
  3. you can’t change your destiny! but you can create your own destiny! – Destiny
  4. In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him. – Thomas Merton
  5. We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. – Thomas Hardy
  6. It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity. – Niccol Machiavelli
  7. We must lift our hands to God in prayer, crying out to Him to help us fulfill what He has called us for, to fulfill His will – Sunday Adelaja
  8. Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. – HenriFrdric Amiel
  9. Sapiens don’t behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions. – Yuval Noah Harari
  10. Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
  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
  13. 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
  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
  16. 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
  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
  19. 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
  20. Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. – Thomas Merton
  21. Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton
  22. 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
  23. My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. – Thomas Merton
  24. The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton
  25. The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  26. One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves. – Marcel Proust
  27. If a woman does not want she actually wants, if she wants she certainly wants it! – Thiruman Archunan
  28. Maybe destiny isn’t something that just happens. Maybe destiny is something you do. Maybe destiny is like a seed and it grows. – Liesl Shurtliff
  29. You can fulfill what the Lord called you to do and for you to fulfill this mission, there must be no impediments – Sunday Adelaja
  30. If you fulfill the wishes of your employees, the employees will fulfill your visions. – Amit Kalantri
  31. Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill.As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  32. God wants us to do everything according to His plan – Sunday Adelaja
  33. every time God forgives us, God is saying that God’s own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. – Richard Rohr
  34. God creates the destiny of every nation according to the times – Sunday Adelaja
  35. God is not to be blamed for your inability to fulfill your destiny – Sunday Adelaja
  36. It is necessary for you to walk according to the spirit because the spirit lusts against the flesh – Sunday Adelaja
  37. Bird has to fly with their own wings; we have to think our own thoughts, find our own destiny. – Debasish Mridha
  38. Be true to yourself and don’t live your life according to other people’s dreams and wants. – Ambra Celeste
  39. He’s my cat! He’s not God’s cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine! – Stephen King
  40. No holy book is more inspired than the other. They are all inspired according to their gods. – Bangambiki Habyarimana

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