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To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

Thomas Merton
Faith, Gratitude, Grateful

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

Thomas Merton
Gratitude, Grace, Moments

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Thomas Merton
Thank You, Gratitude, Awakening
Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being. It is gratitude for life, for awareness, and for being. It is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being in us proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.

Thomas Merton
Spiritual, Gratitude, Realization
Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.1, New Directions Publishing

The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

Thomas Merton
Gratitude, Grateful, Differences
Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

Thomas Merton
Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful
Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.48, Macmillan

We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and even to find Him, even though it may not appear to find Him. Gratitude and confidence and freedom from ourselves: these are signs that we have found our vocation and are living up to it even though everything else may seem to have gone wrong. They give us peace in any suffering. They teach us to laugh at despair. And we may have to.

Thomas Merton
Gratitude, Giving, Laughing
Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.147, Shambhala Publications

My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an inner center of silence, gratitude, and 'awareness.' This can be realized in a life that apparently accomplishes nothing. Without centering on accomplishment or nonaccomplishment, my task is simply the breathing of this gratitude from day to day, in simplicity, and for the rest turning my hand to whatever comes, work being part of praise, whether splitting logs or writing poems, or best of all simple notes.

Thomas Merton
Gratitude, Writing, Simple

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