“God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You! — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Therefore there is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace and my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If I penetrate to the depths of my existence, the indefinable, am, that is myself in its deepest roots, then through this… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“If we enter into ourselves, find our true self, and then pass beyond the inner "I", we sail forth into the immense… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good. His inscrutable love… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“EVERY one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the man that I want myself to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The truth is, that the concept of God which I had always entertained, and which I had accused Christians of teaching to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Do not desire chiefly to be cherished and consoled by God; desire above all to love Him. Do not anxiously desire to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“God bridges the infinite distances between Himself and the spirits created to love Him, by supernatural missions of His own life. The… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know experientially except in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently 'scientific' knowledge… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“As soon as man is fully disposed to be alone with God, he is alone with God no matter where he may… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Most of the world is either asleep or dead. The religious people are, for the most part, asleep. The irreligious are dead.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men--you may make some money and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence… — Thomas Merton Copy Share
