32 Quotations by Thomas Merton
- 1. Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.
- 2. An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in th ...
- 3. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
- 4. At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a po ...
- 5. Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
- 6. By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The s ...
- 7. Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart. Eyes that see not by re ...
- 8. Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back o ...
- 9. For love does not seek a joy that follows from its effect: it's joy is in the effect itself, which i ...
- 10. Humility is the surest sign of strength.
- 11. I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected ...
- 12. I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. ...
- 13. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
- 14. In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding ...
- 15. Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there ar ...
- 16. My life is... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though I were led by the han ...
- 17. October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go ...
- 18. Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism tha ...
- 19. Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- 20. Propaganda makes up our minds for us, but in such a way that it leaves us the sense of pride and sat ...
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