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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Thomas Merton
Peace, War, Sacrifice
Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God

Thomas Merton
Spiritual, Wisdom, Sacrifice
Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

Thomas Merton
Peace, Sacrifice, Heroism
Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.

Thomas Merton
Humility, Acceptance, Sacrifice

See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history begins and ends, all individual lives begin and end, in which every story is told, and finished, and settled for joy or for sorrow: the one point of reference for all the truths that are outside of God, their center, their focus: Love.

Thomas Merton
Wisdom, Sacrifice, Focus
Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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