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Thomas Merton Zitate und Sprüche

„Die Liebe ist unser wahres Schicksal. Wir finden den Sinn des Lebens nicht allein, wir finden ihn miteinander.“

Thomas Merton

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Thomas Merton: Zitate auf Englisch

“In so far as men are prepared to prefer their own will to God's will, they can be said to hate God.”

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Thomas Merton buch The Seven Storey Mountain

Quelle: The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), p. 252

“If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life.”

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Thomas Merton buch The Seven Storey Mountain

That is to say, all men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity which is the principle of all spiritual vitality and happiness because it alone saves us from the barren wilderness of our own abominable selfishness.

p. 147
The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)