Soul Quotes by Thomas Merton

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

— Thomas Merton

Every moment and every event of every mans life on earth plants something in his soul.

— Thomas Merton

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

— Thomas Merton

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

— Thomas Merton

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

— Thomas Merton

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

— Thomas Merton

Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some…

— Thomas Merton

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

— 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

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

— Thomas Merton

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

— Thomas Merton

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the…

— Thomas Merton

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin.…

— Thomas Merton

You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.

— Thomas Merton

The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has…

— Thomas Merton

God has left sin in the world in order that there may be forgiveness: not only the secret forgiveness by which He…

— Thomas Merton

Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of…

— Thomas Merton

Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become…

— Thomas Merton

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that…

— Thomas Merton

Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands…

— Thomas Merton

Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes…

— Thomas Merton

The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of…

— Thomas Merton

The soul of man, left to its own natural level, is a potentially lucid crystal left in darkness. It is perfect in…

— Thomas Merton

It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of…

— Thomas Merton

Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and…

— Thomas Merton

We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to…

— 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

And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when…

— Thomas Merton

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the…

— Thomas Merton