Thomas Merton
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.