Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. — Thomas Merton Achieving peace Copy Share Image
God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You! — Thomas Merton Blindness Copy Share Image
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. — Thomas Merton Nature of man Copy Share Image
“Above all, enter into the Church’s liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life—let its rhythm work its way into… — Thomas Merton Liturgy Copy Share Image
“To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything He has given us — and He has given us… — Thomas Merton God given Copy Share Image
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with… — Thomas Merton God Copy Share Image
I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. — Thomas Merton Angel Copy Share Image
If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not… — Thomas Merton Darkness Copy Share Image
The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable — Thomas Merton Grace Copy Share Image
For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most… — Thomas Merton Discipleship Copy Share Image
For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one's own contingent self, cannot exist where there… — Thomas Merton Attribution Copy Share Image
“EVERY one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the man that I want myself to… — Thomas Merton Cybersecurity Copy Share Image
I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But… — Thomas Merton Home Copy Share Image
“There is “no such thing” as God because God is neither a “what” nor a “thing” but a pure “Who.”* He is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And… — Thomas Merton Joy Copy Share Image
The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
In the natural order no matter what ideals may be theoretically possible, most people more or less live for themselves and for… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Contemplation is precisely the awareness that this “I” is really “not I” and the awakening of the unknown “I” that is beyond… — Thomas Merton Confidence Copy Share Image
“I hear You saying to me: "I will give you what you desire. I will lead you into solitude. I will lead… — Thomas Merton Concentration camp Copy Share Image
“There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life,… — Thomas Merton Eternal life Copy Share Image
“For whatever is demanded by truth, by justice, by mercy, or by love must surely be taken to be willed by God.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
![“I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue…” quote by Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/19e/thomas-merton-231_home_i-was-not-sure-where-i-was-going-and-i-c_1031139.jpg)
