Faith Quotes by Thomas Merton

We do not exist for ourselves.

— Thomas Merton

A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

— Thomas Merton

A faith that is afraid of other people is not faith at all.

— Thomas Merton

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.

— Thomas Merton

You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.

— Thomas Merton

“If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found.”

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth.

— Thomas Merton

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

— Thomas Merton

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

— Thomas Merton

The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.

— Thomas Merton

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him…

— Thomas Merton

“For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of…

— Thomas Merton

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in…

— Thomas Merton

“I could recognize that those who thought about God had a good way of considering Him, and that those who believed in…

— Thomas Merton

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to…

— Thomas Merton

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

— Thomas Merton

“... it may express the solitary's conviction that he is not good enough for most of the visible exercises of the community,…

— Thomas Merton

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on…

— Thomas Merton

For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to…

— Thomas Merton

Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but…

— Thomas Merton

One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and…

— Thomas Merton

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative…

— Thomas Merton

“We must approach our meditation realizing that 'grace,' 'mercy,' and 'faith' are not permanent inalienable possessions which we gain by our efforts…

— Thomas Merton

“The ever-changing reality in the midst of which we live should awaken us to the possibility of an uninterrupted dialogue with God.…

— Thomas Merton

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot…

— Thomas Merton

God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably… We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even…

— Thomas Merton

“This false “faith” which is what we often live by and which we even come to confuse with our “religion” is subjected…

— Thomas Merton

“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep,…

— 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

We too often forget that faith is a matter of questioning and struggle before it becomes one of certitude and peace. You…

— 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

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us…

— Thomas Merton

“When Life was Full In the age when life on earth was full, no one paid any special attention to worthy men,…

— Thomas Merton

Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no…

— Thomas Merton

“A man becomes a saint not by conviction that he is better than sinners but by the realization that he is one…

— Thomas Merton

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness…

— Thomas Merton