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“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.”
― Sean Leary, The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.

“Looking for God is like seeking a path in a field of snow; if there is no path and you are looking for one, walk across it, and there is your path.”
― Sean Leary, The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.

“Our real journey in life is interior: it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts.”
― Sean Leary, The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.

“It’s also Biblical, and consistent with Christianity as a religion & relationship with God, not as a mere program for social advancement. It’s easy to say yes to the Kingdom in the abstract when we don’t reckon with the knowledge that it means, also, having to be kind when we really don’t want to be, having to love our enemy, having to bless those who curse us, having to be generous when we’re in scarcity mode, having to give up the habits of the world that are inconsistent with the worship of God.”
― Sean Leary, The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.

“Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.”
― Sean Leary, The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.

“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
― Sean Leary, The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.

“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”
― Sean Leary, The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.