God Quotes by Thomas Merton

54 God quotes by Thomas Merton

A false self shadows every person, a version that cannot exist because God knows no falsehood. Merton writes that only God can teach the search for God, and that our ideas of God tell us more about ourselves than about Him.

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When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.

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

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“God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself.”

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God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

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The only unhappiness is not to love God.

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The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.

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“To be unknown to God is entirely too much privacy.”

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The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.

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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with…

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He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond…

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“No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he…

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

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

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God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

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For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go…

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The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

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Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He…

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Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its…

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“He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most…

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“EVERY one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the man that I want myself to…

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“If we enter into ourselves, find our true self, and then pass beyond the inner "I", we sail forth into the immense…

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“We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good. His inscrutable love…

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

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

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See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in…

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“Do not desire chiefly to be cherished and consoled by God; desire above all to love Him. Do not anxiously desire to…

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At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a…

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“The truth is, that the concept of God which I had always entertained, and which I had accused Christians of teaching to…

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Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will…

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

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

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In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek…

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“As soon as man is fully disposed to be alone with God, he is alone with God no matter where he may…

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

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“Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently 'scientific' knowledge…

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“We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know experientially except in…

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“Most of the world is either asleep or dead. The religious people are, for the most part, asleep. The irreligious are dead.…

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“There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, the passage from death to life in…

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We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

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“The only One Who can teach me to find God is God, Himself, Alone.”

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Love winter when the plant says nothing.

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