Truth Quotes by Thomas Merton

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in…

— Thomas Merton

The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure…

— Thomas Merton

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by…

— Thomas Merton

The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and…

— Thomas Merton

It seems to me that the darkness that has troubled you ... comes from one very serious source. Without wanting to be…

— Thomas Merton

The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

— Thomas Merton

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the…

— Thomas Merton

We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves…

— Thomas Merton

To be truly Catholic is not merely to be correct according to an abstractly universal standard of truth, but also and above…

— Thomas Merton

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

— 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

Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the…

— Thomas Merton

It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, now I realize what we all are . If…

— Thomas Merton

To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of…

— Thomas Merton

“...only God's truth without limit, without defect, without stain. This clean light, which tastes of Paradise, is beyond all pride, beyond comment,…

— 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

“Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering,…

— Thomas Merton

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from…

— 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

“When the light of God's truth begins to find its way through the mists of illusion and self-deception with which we have…

— Thomas Merton

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

— Thomas Merton

I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process.…

— Thomas Merton

“At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of…

— Thomas Merton

Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right.

— Thomas Merton

“We know by fresh discovery, the deep reality that is our concrete existence here and now and in the depths of that…

— Thomas Merton

“The truth that many people never understand is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more your suffer, because smaller…

— Thomas Merton

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to…

— Thomas Merton

But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that…

— Thomas Merton

Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from…

— Thomas Merton