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“If you found God with great ease, perhaps it's not God that you have found.”

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Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 - December 10, 1968) was an American writer, poet, social critic, and mystic. His works covered a wide range of topics including philosophy, religion, and social justice, and were highly appreciated by readers. more

“Those who say they believe in God, and yet neither love nor fear him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe inGod but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair, even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.”

God Hard Truth

Author:Miguel de Unamuno

“Those terms haunt me, -- in the way of all aspersions that contain a germ of truth. I have been unable to banish them. They sit on my shoulders and mutter in my ears during all my moments of doubt.”

Introspection Hard Truth

Book:God Is an Astronaut

Source: God Is an Astronaut

“Because all the things God isn't for me," she said, "you are. Because of you I see Him every day. So start talking lizardman, but I warn you, you've got a hard talk ahead of you if you're going to convince me there's no God after He gave you to me.”

Love Faith Endearing

Book:The Last Hour of Gann

Source: The Last Hour of Gann

“You never really know about the people who daydream of killing you.”

Life Poetry Daydreaming Hard Truth

Book:Crushed Black Velvet

Source: Crushed Black Velvet

“only brunettes and redheads are hot lol”

Inspirational Hard Truth

Author:Simon The Faggot

“The most stubborn of heads may waver when bashed against a rock.”

Hard Truth Unexpected Wisdom

Book:Toils of the Valiant: Book Two of the Chronicles of Vrandalin

Source: Toils of the Valiant: Book Two of the Chronicles of Vrandalin

“But life's taught me things can always get worse than they are.”

Hard Truth Murphy S Law Hard Lesson

Book:Troubled Blood

Source: Troubled Blood

“As terrible as it was to admit it, the shock of seeing them so happily occupied without me hurt more than the break of my engagement to one of the best men I'd ever known.”

Hard Truth I Can Relate

Book:The Lonely Hearts Book Club

Source: The Lonely Hearts Book Club

“In this case Karen’s child was her story. And all the world was waiting greedily for its deliverance even if they didn’t yet know its name or the uncomfortable shape of it and the peculiar contours that altogether were sure to test the foundations upon which they had built their holiest of houses and coziest of dens. They only knew that all of history was in want of a definitive accounting and that such had already been written and then ensepulchered by prophets unsung and that their eventual unveiling was nothing less than the birthright of all humankind.”

Hard Truths Hard Truth Uncomfortable Truth Truthtelling Uncomfortable Truths Unpleasant Truth Difficult Story Truthteller Unpleasant Story Unpleasant Truths

Book:The Subtle Cause

Source: The Subtle Cause

“There is no human relationship that is not based on self-interest”

Self Interest Human Relationships Hard Truths Hard Truth

Book:The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom

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