Best Thomas Merton Quotations
- My own personal task is not simply that of poet and writer (still less commentator, pseudo-prophet); it is basically to praise God out of an… Accomplish
- The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value.… Able
- After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,… All
- In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which… Able
- The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through… Along
- The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of… Aim
- I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can. Buddhism
- The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear… Chill
- When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is… Abusive
- For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing. All
- Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives. Conscience
- See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history… All
- If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in… Always Beyond
- In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything. End
- The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the… All
- People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell. Hell
- The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living… Creating
- For now, oh my God, it is to You alone that I can talk, because nobody else will understand. I cannot bring any other man… Abashed
- It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we have received of the… Able
- Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world… Answer
- The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most… Easily
- It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom… Broken
- To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved… Christ
- It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this… Abundant
- The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks… Discover
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