Mission St. Claire<\/a>, generally, and read the book of common prayer liturgy \u201cThe Daily Office\u201d online through them.<\/p>\nToday, the church calendar tells me that we celebrate Thomas Merton, a St. of the Church. Some of his writings have deeply impacted me. Here are a few great quotes from Merton.
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\u201c[A publisher asked me to write something on \u2018The Secret of Success,\u2019 and I refused.] If I had a message to my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success. \u2026 If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted. If a university concentrates on producing successful people, it is lamentably failing in its obligation to society and to the students themselves.\u201d
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\u201cWar represents a vice that mankind would like to get rid of but which it cannot do without. Man is like an alcoholic who knows that drink will destroy him but who always has a reason for drinking. So with war.\u201d
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\u201cThe danger of education, I have found, is that it so easily confuses means with ends. Worse than that, it quite easily forgets both and devotes itself merely to the mass production of uneducated graduates\u2013people literaly unfit for anything except to take part in an elaborate and completely artificial charade which they and their contemporaries have conspired to call \u2018life\u2019.\u201d
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He\u2019s a freak!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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