Faith
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"The more you own, the more it owns you."
Søren Kierkegaard
Attributed
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Passion is required for anything worthwhile."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Human freedom is a freedom to act, not freedom from acting."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Dare to be yourself."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The individual is absolutely free."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love."
Thomas Merton
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"One of the monastic fathers used to say, 'The nearer we are to God, the nearer we are to each other.'"
Thomas Merton
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"Peace comes from knowing that you are loved."
Thomas Merton
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"In the end, it is the reality of personal relationships that saves everything."
Thomas Merton
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"We are called to be contemplatives."
Thomas Merton
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"Do not depend on the hope of results."
Thomas Merton
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"The beginning of the journey back to God is the acknowledgment that you are on the wrong path."
Thomas Merton
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"The contemplative life is a life of prayer and solitude."
Thomas Merton
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"Contemplation is the highest form of prayer."
Thomas Merton
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"The purpose of a monastic community is not productivity or success."
Thomas Merton
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