Best Thomas Merton Lines
- The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a… Art
- I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly… Ask
- God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it.… Able
- The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that… Acts
- Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and… Awakening
- Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. Awareness
- Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring. Action
- I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God. Become Perfectly
- True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared. Found
- There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests… Bethlehem
- Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed… Ardent
- O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't. Alone
- Love, in fact, is the spiritual life; and without it, all other exercises of the spirit are emptied of content. All
- The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some… Cannot See
- The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation… Breathe
- To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism… All
- Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life. Age
- Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity. Contemplation
- Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be… According
- In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong. Absolutely
- What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a… Accepting
- The spiritual life is first of all a life. It is not merely something to be known and studied, it is to be lived. All
- To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell. False
- In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece… All
- Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust. All
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