Thomas Merton

Life Quotes

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. -
Thomas Merton
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Success Quotes

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly. -
Thomas Merton

God Quotes

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives. -
Thomas Merton
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Life Quotes

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. -
Thomas Merton

Life Quotes

If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for. -
Thomas Merton
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Life Quotes

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. -
Thomas Merton