On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French… — Thomas Merton Day Copy Share Image
“Ultimately the only way that I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the reason and… — Thomas Merton Existence Copy Share Image
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own… — Thomas Merton Career 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 God Copy Share Image
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation. — Thomas Merton Religion Copy Share Image
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn… — Thomas Merton Compassion Copy Share Image
For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there… — Thomas Merton Attribution 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 Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But… — Thomas Merton Home Copy Share Image
The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to… — Thomas Merton Bad dream Copy Share Image
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
From the moment you put a piece of bread in your mouth you are part of the world. Who grew the wheat?… — Thomas Merton Bread Copy Share Image
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the… — Thomas Merton Contradiction Copy Share Image
“Now, in Scribner's window, I saw a book called The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy. I went inside, and took it off the… — Thomas Merton Books Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with… — Thomas Merton Alone with god Copy Share Image
A purely mental life may be destructive if it leads us to substitute thought for life and ideas for actions. The activity… — Thomas Merton Action Copy Share Image
First, the desert is the country of madness. Second, it is the refuge of the devil, thrown out into the "wilderness of… — Thomas Merton Care Copy Share Image
“The Empty Boat He who rules men lives in confusion; He who is ruled by men lives in sorrow. Yao therefore desired… — Thomas Merton Clear water Copy Share Image
“This false “faith” which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our “religion” is subjected… — Thomas Merton Contemplation Copy Share Image
“Those who refuse His mercy satisfy His justice in another way. Without His mercy, they cannot love Him. Without love for Him… — Thomas Merton Atheism Copy Share Image
If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved. — Thomas Merton Being loved Copy Share Image
For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of… — Thomas Merton Faith Copy Share Image
Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not… — Thomas Merton Darkness Copy Share Image
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable — Thomas Merton Grace Copy Share Image
A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the… — Thomas Merton Comedy Copy Share Image
A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying… — Thomas Merton Giving Copy Share Image
It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him… — Thomas Merton Awareness Copy Share Image
Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact come to know anything. — Thomas Merton Birth Copy Share Image
The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament… — Thomas Merton Age Copy Share Image
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