Merton Quotes
- We usually recognize a beginning. Endings are more difficult to detect. Most often, they are realized only after reflection. Silence. We are seldom conscious when… — Terry Tempest Williams
- The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is new attentiveness to… — Richard J. Foster
- Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton. — Lynne Truss
- On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton,… — A. N. Wilson
- The immature conscience is not its own master. It simply parrots the decisions of others. It does not make judgments of its own; it merely… — Jon Katz
- The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi,… — Thomas Merton
- Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi,… — Thomas Merton
- In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. — Thomas Day
- Thomas Merton The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit… — Thomas Merton No Man Is An Island