Life Quotes by Thomas Merton

Love is an intensification of life.

— Thomas Merton

Our real journey in life is interior.

— Thomas Merton

Today will never come again.

— Thomas Merton

Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!

— Thomas Merton

Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.

— Thomas Merton

Every moment and every event of every mans life on earth plants something in his soul.

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

— Thomas Merton

“Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.”

— Thomas Merton

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

— Thomas Merton

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

— Thomas Merton

“The whole of life is to spiritualize our activities by humility and faith, to silence our nature by charity.”

— Thomas Merton

You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.

— Thomas Merton

Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of…

— Thomas Merton

The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to…

— Thomas Merton

“Therefore there is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace and my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering…

— Thomas Merton

“Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat . . . Ask me what I am living for…

— Thomas Merton

“What every man looks for in life is his own salvation and the salvation of the men he lives with. By salvation…

— Thomas Merton

“If I penetrate to the depths of my existence, the indefinable, am, that is myself in its deepest roots, then through this…

— Thomas Merton

Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all…

— Thomas Merton

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

— Thomas Merton

Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were…

— Thomas Merton

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all…

— Thomas Merton

“Is it any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the…

— Thomas Merton

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us...and He has given us everything. Every…

— Thomas Merton

When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of…

— Thomas Merton

Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar…

— Thomas Merton

By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials,…

— Thomas Merton

Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your…

— Thomas Merton

“There was to be nothing special about it, nothing that savored of a religious Order, no special rule, no distinctive habit. She,…

— Thomas Merton

What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are…

— Thomas Merton

“and burdens of mature life, when they became aware of their own weakness, they lost their peace, they let go of their…

— Thomas Merton

“Nothing could be more alien to contemplation than the cogito ergo sum of Descartes. “I think, therefore I am.” This is the…

— Thomas Merton

“Perfect Joy (excerpts) Is there to be found on earth a fullness of joy, or is there no such thing? . .…

— Thomas Merton

“Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married…

— Thomas Merton

Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals,…

— Thomas Merton

“There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life,…

— Thomas Merton

In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

— Thomas Merton

Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

— Thomas Merton

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

— Thomas Merton