The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.Thomas Merton
Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.
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A daydream is an evasion.
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The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and burn my own hand while burning the other person. Hate itself is the seed of death in my own heart while it seeks death of another. Love is the seed of life in my own heart while it seeks the good of another.
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
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