Love 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

Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.

— Thomas Merton

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

— Thomas Merton

The only unhappiness is not to love God.

— Thomas Merton

My best writing has always been in journals.

— Thomas Merton

If you have love you will do all things well.

— Thomas Merton

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

— Thomas Merton

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

— 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

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

To love blindly is to love selfishly, because the goal of such love is not the real advantage of the beloved but…

— 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

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with…

— Thomas Merton

For if I am to love truly and freely, I must be able to give something that is truly my own to…

— Thomas Merton

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

— Thomas Merton

If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.

— Thomas Merton

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the…

— Thomas Merton

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit out own…

— Thomas Merton

It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love.…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out…

— Thomas Merton

“Father, I love You Whom I do not know, and I embrace You Whom I do not see, and I abandon myself…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and…

— Thomas Merton

“It is true that God knows Himself in all the things that exist. He sees them, and it is because He sees…

— Thomas Merton

“For whatever is demanded by truth, by justice, by mercy, or by love must surely be taken to be willed by God.…

— Thomas Merton

“We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is…

— Thomas Merton

“Those who refuse His mercy satisfy His justice in another way. Without His mercy, they cannot love Him. Without love for Him…

— Thomas Merton

“New eyes awaken. I send Love's name into the world with wings And songs grow up around me like a jungle. Choirs…

— 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

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

— Thomas Merton

What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton