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TMThomas Merton1915–1968

The quotations of

Thomas Merton

Priest and author

1915–1968

4 quotes, most often on Love.

Persons are not known by intellect alone, not by principles alone, but only by love. It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who he is, and who we are.
Letter to Dorothy Day (20 December 1961).
- Enemies
- Love
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
Letter to Dorothy Day, quoted in Catholic Voices in a World on Fire (2005) by Stephen Hand, p. 180.
- Love
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.
Love and Living (1979) Part One: Love and Living, p. 27
- Love
Everybody makes fun of virtue, which by now has, as its primary meaning, an affectation of prudery practiced by hypocrites and the impotent.
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), p. 223
- Virtue

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