Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here,… — Thomas Merton Christ Copy Share Image
For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the… — Thomas Merton Duties Copy Share Image
How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others… — Thomas Merton Changing mind Copy Share Image
The humble person receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“I am seen by You under the sky, and my offenses have been forgotten by You--but I have not forgotten them.” — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He… — Thomas Merton Enemy Copy Share Image
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. — Thomas Merton Destiny Copy Share Image
One opens the inner doors of one's heart to the infinite silences of the Spirit, out of whose abysses love wells up… — Thomas Merton Abyss Copy Share Image
By my monastic life and vows I am saying no to all the concentration camps, the aerial bombardments, the staged political trials,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and… — Thomas Merton Contemplation Copy Share Image
The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working… — Thomas Merton Art Copy Share Image
Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self… — Thomas Merton Father Copy Share Image
“We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the… — Thomas Merton Contradictions Copy Share Image
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin… — Thomas Merton Beauty Copy Share Image
“I got to a state where phrases like "the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" filled me with a kind of suppressed… — Thomas Merton Beauty Copy Share Image
“I once thought that would be the consummation of all joy—to be united by a bond of love—to be lost in His… — Thomas Merton Christ love Copy Share Image
To some men peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means… — Thomas Merton Absence Copy Share Image
“Technology has its own ethic of expediency and efficiency. What can be done efficiently must be done in the most efficient way—even… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently 'scientific' knowledge… — Thomas Merton Christ Copy Share Image
“We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know experientially except in… — Thomas Merton God Copy Share Image
For language to have meaning, there must be intervals of silence somewhere, to divide word from word and utterance from utterance. He… — Thomas Merton Before and after Copy Share Image
And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey. — Thomas Merton Belief Copy Share Image
We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be… — Thomas Merton Beginners Copy Share Image
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. — Thomas Merton Christ Copy Share Image
We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a… — Thomas Merton Ash wednesday Copy Share Image
A Christian is committed to the belief that Love and Mercy are the most powerful forces on earth. — Thomas Merton Belief Copy Share Image
“The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.” — Thomas Merton Darkness Copy Share Image
In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment. — Thomas Merton Emptiness Copy Share Image
The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places. — Thomas Merton Christ Copy Share Image
My God, I pray better to you by breathing. I pray better to you by walking than by talking. — Thomas Merton Breathing Copy Share Image
“Where self-interest is the bond, The friendship is dissolved When calamity comes. Where Tao is the bond, Friendship is made perfect By… — Thomas Merton Friend Copy Share Image
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very… — Thomas Merton Darkness Copy Share Image
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own… — Thomas Merton Beginning Copy Share Image
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
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