Thomas Merton Quotes

A Man Is A Free Being Who Is Always Changing Into Himself. This Changing Is Never Merely Indifferent. We Are Always Getting Either Better Or Worse. Our Development Is Measured By Our Acts Of Free Choice, And We Make Ourselves By The Patterns Of Our Desires.
If Our Desires Reach Out For The Things That We Were Created To Have And To Make And To Become, Then We Will Develop Into What We Were Truly Meant To Be.
But If Our Desires Reach Out For Things That Have Have No Meaning For The Growth Of Our Spirit, If They Lose Themselves In Dreams Or Passions Or Illusions, We Will Be False To Ourselves And To Other Men And To God. We Will Judge Ourselves As Aliens And Exiles From Ourselves And From God.
In Hell, There Is No Recollection. The Damned Are Exiled Not Only From God And From Other Men, But Even From Themselves.

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