Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary everyday routine.” — Thomas Merton Everyday routine Copy Share Image
We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads… — Thomas Merton Change Copy Share Image
True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are. — Thomas Merton Action Copy Share Image
“We only know Him in so far as we are known by Him, and our contemplation of Him is a participation in… — Thomas Merton Contemplation Copy Share Image
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities… — Thomas Merton Absurdities Copy Share Image
Be still: There is no longer any need of comment. It was a lucky wind That blew away his halo with his… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is. — Thomas Merton Despair Copy Share Image
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value… — Thomas Merton Ability Copy Share Image
“Father, I love You Whom I do not know, and I embrace You Whom I do not see, and I abandon myself… — Thomas Merton Father Copy Share Image
If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because… — Thomas Merton Decision Copy Share Image
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by… — Thomas Merton Desire Copy Share Image
“It was because the saints were absorbed in God that they were truly capable of seeing and appreciating created things and it… — Thomas Merton Saint Copy Share Image
“Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And… — Thomas Merton Joy Copy Share Image
The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There is “no such thing” as God because God is neither a “what” nor a “thing” but a pure “Who.”* He is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech,… — Thomas Merton Brother Copy Share Image
“BUT as long as you pretend to live in pure autonomy, as your own master, without even a god to rule you,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
First of all, although men have a common destiny, each individual also has to work out his own personal salvation for himself… — Thomas Merton Analysis Copy Share Image
It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love.… — 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 Belief Copy Share Image
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no one expects us to be "as gods." We will see… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in… — Thomas Merton Crystals Copy Share Image
One might say I have decided to marry the silence of the forest. The sweet dark warmth of the whole world will… — Thomas Merton Dark Copy Share Image
To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but… — Thomas Merton Advantage Copy Share Image
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you… — Thomas Merton Future Copy Share Image
When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who… — Thomas Merton Approval Copy Share Image
Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we… — Thomas Merton Awakening Copy Share Image
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind… — Thomas Merton Dimensions Copy Share Image
It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the… — Thomas Merton Charity Copy Share Image
I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. — Thomas Merton Loneliness Copy Share Image
Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some… — Thomas Merton Art Copy Share Image
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can. — Thomas Merton Buddhism Copy Share Image
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder… — Thomas Merton Climbing Copy Share Image
![“The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear Brothers [and Sisters], we are already one. But we imagine that we…” quote by Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/bd6/thomas-merton-231_brother_the-deepest-level-of-communication-is-no_2489346.jpg)
