Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Merton

Love is an intensification of life.

— Thomas Merton

To be a saint is to be yourself.

— Thomas Merton

Take more time, cover less ground.

— Thomas Merton

Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.

— Thomas Merton

The gate of heaven is everywhere.

— Thomas Merton

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

— Thomas Merton

My best writing has always been in journals.

— Thomas Merton

If you have love you will do all things well.

— Thomas Merton

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

— Thomas Merton

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

— Thomas Merton

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.

— Thomas Merton

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

— Thomas Merton

"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

— Thomas Merton

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is…

— Thomas Merton

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

— Thomas Merton

Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.

— Thomas Merton

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to…

— Thomas Merton

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of…

— Thomas Merton

There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness.

— Thomas Merton

As long as I am content to know that He is infinitely greater than I, and that I cannot know Him unless…

— Thomas Merton

God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice…

— Thomas Merton

“It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When we do this we…

— Thomas Merton

For me to be a saint means to be myself.

— Thomas Merton

Love is our true destiny.

— Thomas Merton

Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.

— Thomas Merton

Stop thinking and start looking.

— Thomas Merton

You are made in the image of what you desire.

— Thomas Merton

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

— Thomas Merton

Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!

— Thomas Merton

Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.

— Thomas Merton

Today will never come again.

— Thomas Merton

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

— Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.

— Thomas Merton