Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Peace demands heroic labor (Thomas Merton)

When we create peace, and harmony, 
and balance in our minds,
we will find it in our lives.

--Louise Hay 

    If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another. 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,
Passion for Peace

Image source:  Patrick Jacob, The Lion and the Lamb, https://endofthematter.com/2018/03/one-sacrifice/
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