For me to be a saint means to be myself. ✨ Thomas Merton (2007). New S…

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For me to be a saint means to be myself. ✨ Thomas Merton (2007). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.31, New Directions Publishing
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For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self. ✨ Thomas Merton (2007). New Se … ▶
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.211, Houghton Miff … ▶
I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face. ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Entering the Silence: Be … ▶
Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.434, Houghton Mifflin … ▶
Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life. ✨ Thomas Merton (2003). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.148, Shambhal … ▶

For me to be a saint means to be myself. ✨ Thomas Merton (2007). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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