Thomas Merton Quotes

Because There Is Happiness Only Where There Is Coordination With The Truth, The Reality, The Act That Underlies And Directs All Things To Their Essential And Accidental Perfections: And That Is The Will Of God. There Is Only One Happiness: To Please Him. Only One Sorrow, To Be Displeasing To Him, To Refuse Him Something, To Turn Away From Him, Even In The Slightest Thing, Even In Thought, In A Half-willed Movement Of Appetite: In These Things And These Alone, Is Sorrow, In So Far As They Imply Separation, Or The Beginning, The Possibility Of Separation From Him Who Is Our Life And All Our Joy. And Since God Is A Spirit, And Infinitely Above All Matter And All Creation, The Only Complete Union Possible, Between Ourselves And Him, Is In The Order Of Intention: A Union Of Wills And Intellects, In Love, Charity.

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