Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your… — Thomas Merton Heart Copy Share Image
A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies… — Thomas Merton Afraid of failure Copy Share Image
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind… — Thomas Merton Humiliation Copy Share Image
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own… — Thomas Merton Beginning Copy Share Image
Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love. — Thomas Merton Faith Copy Share Image
Before we can realize who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person we think we are,… — Thomas Merton Awakening Copy Share Image
We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all… — Thomas Merton Awareness Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Far from ruining the purity of solitary prayer, petition guards and preserves that purity. The solitary, more than anyone else, is always… — Thomas Merton Prayer Copy Share Image
“Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. They constantly defile the silence of the forests and the mountains… — thomas merton Copy Share Image
“He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value… — Thomas Merton Identity Copy Share Image
There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how… — Thomas Merton Art Copy Share Image
“Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I… — Thomas Merton Desire Copy Share Image
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Age Copy Share Image
“The Inner Law He whose law is within himself Walks in hiddenness. His acts are not influenced By approval or disapproval. He… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Duke Hwan and the Wheelwright (an excerpt) The world values books, and thinks that in so doing it is valuing Tao. But… — Thomas Merton Books Copy Share Image
For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring… — Thomas Merton Anguish Copy Share Image
“How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand… — Thomas Merton Books Copy Share Image
“If there are no self-evident first principles, as a foundation for reasoning to conclusions that are not immediately apparent, how can you… — Thomas Merton Existence of god Copy Share Image
“Keng's Disciple The disciple: "When I don't know people treat me like a fool. When I do know, the knowledge gets me… — Thomas Merton Making Effort Copy Share Image
“Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self. — Thomas Merton Acceptance Copy Share Image
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin… — Thomas Merton Alone Copy Share Image
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. — Thomas Merton Forests Copy Share Image
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds — Thomas Merton Clutter Copy Share Image
That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew… — Thomas Merton Closeness Copy Share Image
A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair. — Thomas Merton Despair Copy Share Image
Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn… — Thomas Merton Compassion Copy Share Image
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all… — Thomas Merton Bird Copy Share Image
Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value… — Thomas Merton Ardent Copy Share Image
The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception. — Thomas Merton Analogue Copy Share Image
True happiness is not found in any other reward than that of being united with God. If I seek some other reward… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
People are in a hurry to magnify themselves by imitating what is popular- and too lazy to think of anything better. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust. — Thomas Merton Ash wednesday Copy Share Image
The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can… — Thomas Merton Atheism Copy Share Image
