True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as … - Thomas Merton

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I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.

Thomas Merton

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

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Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

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It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

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In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

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The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

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I didn't turn with the enemy pilots as a rule. I might make one turn to see what the situation was but not often. It was too risky.

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The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on the view that killing is always a grave matter. When we have to kill to live we may do so, but when we do not, we should live otherwise.

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