« All Us Quotes · Thomas Merton's Page
Us Quotes by Thomas Merton
- We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
- Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness, unification, self-discovery. Negative…
- As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this…
- Some of us need to discover that we will not begin to live more fully until we have the courage to do and see and…
- The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In…
- At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark…
- Every one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false Self. We are not very good at recognizing illusions, least of all the…
- As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf…
- Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered...
- True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
- There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom,…
- A happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found: for a happiness that is diminished by being shared is not big enough…
- In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility,…
- There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which…
- After all, what is your personal identity? It is what you really are, your real self. None of us is what he thinks he is,…
- If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own, homeless and displaced in…
- The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living…
- It is by the Holy Spirit that we love those who are united to us in Christ. The more plentifully we have received of the…
- Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world…
- It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom…
- To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and no man is saved…
- We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to seek God and…
- Each one of us has some kind of vocation. We are all called by God to share in His life and in His Kingdom. Each…
- One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to see the value…
- What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong