Best Thomas Merton Sayings
- We do not exist for ourselves. Exist
- Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God. Age
- What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting… Absolutely
- But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see… All
- A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent. Act
- Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how to pray in… Art
- Today will never come again. Inspirational
- It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food… Accept
- The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with a red hot iron. I have to pick up the incandescent metal and… Another Love
- It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God. Christian
- The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay. Decay
- No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he… Continues
- Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self that awakens only… Awakens
- Our real journey in life is interior. Conformity
- Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he… Afraid
- The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis, but first of all by living. For… All
- ... but any fool knows that you don't need money to get enjoyment out of life. Any
- The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life… All
- Take more time, cover less ground. Cover
- In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,… According
- There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which… Awaken
- Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home… Consists
- Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything or you look at your own… All
- Perhaps peace is not, after all, something you work for, or 'fight for.' It is indeed 'fighting for peace' that starts all the wars. What,… All
- The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a… Alternatives
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