Thomas Merton Quotes About Love
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Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38
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If you have love you will do all things well.
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Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.
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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
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A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
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O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
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We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.
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Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.
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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.
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Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
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In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
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Love is the door to eternity.
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