Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for Him at all, Christ comes uninvited.

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"Love is, in fact, an intensification of life, a completeness, a fullness, a wholeness of life."

- Thomas Merton

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"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."

- Thomas Merton

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"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone—we find it with another."

- Thomas Merton

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"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another."

- Thomas Merton

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"There is only one desire: to find the promised land and the freedom of a pure love that is without concern for anything else but love."

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"In a sense, your small and simple sacrifices are the dots of daily living that make up the masterpiece painting of your life. You may not see how the dots connect now, and you don’t need to yet. Simply have faith enough for the moment you are living in now. Trust in God, and ‘out of small things [will come] that which is great’ [Doctrine and Covenants 64:33]."

- Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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"With God all things are possible."

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"For we walk by faith, not by sight."

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"Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.’"

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"Jesus answered, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’"

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