The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
Thomas Merton
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It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
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