Best Thomas Merton Proverbs
- If you have love you will do all things well. All
- Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God. Art
- When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to… Alone
- And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey. Belief
- For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He who retires into… Both
- The man who lives in division is living in death. He cannot find himself because he is lost; he has ceased to be a reality.… Bad
- Sincerity must be bought at a price: the humility to recognize our innumerable errors, and fidelity in tirelessly setting them right. Bought
- One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them… Bear
- In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any… Adaptability
- There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude. Inspirational
- Stop thinking and start looking. Funny
- You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt. Doubt
- To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a… Alone
- It might be good to open our eyes and see. Eye
- Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains. Art
- Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness. Contemplative
- I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in… Desire
- A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair. Always Verges
- A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in… Afraid
- If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work. Bless
- Not only does silence give us a chance to understand ourselves better, to get a truer and more balanced perspective on our own lives in… Balanced
- Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity,… Act
- We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by… Inside
- Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand. All
- People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against… Climbing
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