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Thomas Merton Quote: “The only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Too much happiness, too much unhappiness, out of due time, men are thrown off balance. What will they do next? Thought runs wild. No control. They start everything, finish nothing. Here competition begins, here the idea of excellence is born, and robbers appear in the world.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Power is made perfect in infirmity, and our very helplessness is all the more potent a claim on that Divine Mercy Who calls to Himself the poor, the little ones, the heavily burdened.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “It seems to me that I have greater peace and am close to God when I am not “trying to be a contemplative,” or trying to be anything special, but simply orienting my life fully and completely towards what seems to be required of a man like me at a time like this.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The “spiritual life” is then the perfectly balanced life in which the body with its passions and instincts, the mind with its reasoning and its obedience to principle and the spirit with its passive illumination by the Light and Love of God form one complete man who is in God and with God and from God and for God. One man in whom God is all in all. One man in whom God carries out His own will without obstacle.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The truly sacred attitude toward life is in no sense an escape from the sense of nothingness that assails us when we are left alone with ourselves.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another’s solitude.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “How free you can become if you stop worrying about things that don’t concern you!”
Thomas Merton Quote: “How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “I don’t even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested in it from the moment you are alive you are bound to be concerned with love because love is not just something that happens to you: It is a certain special way of being alive. Love is in fact an intensification of life a completeness a fullness a wholeness of life.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “It can be said, without fear of error, that our meditation is as good as our faith.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his “right mind.” p. 31.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Ultimately the only way that I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the reason and fulfillment of my existence.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The Hindus are not looking for us to send them men who will build schools and hospitals, although those things are good and useful in themselves – and perhaps very badly needed in India: they want to know if we have any saints to send them.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I think, in a way, they were certainly saints. And they were saints in that most effective and telling way: sanctified by leading ordinary lives in a completely supernatural manner, sanctified by obscurity, by usual skills, by common tasks, by routine, but skills, tasks, routine which received a supernatural form from grace within.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “We love the things we pretend to laugh at.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The climate of this prayer is, then, one of awareness, gratitude and a totally obedient love which seeks nothing but to please God.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “I must become convinced and penetrated by the realization that without my love for them they may perhaps not achieve the things God has willed for them. My.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “One of the moral diseases we communicate to one another in society comes from huddling together in the pale light of an insufficient answer to a question we are afraid to ask.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “It is good for the soul to be in solitude for a great part of the time. But if it should seek solitude for its own comfort and consolation, it will have to endure more darkness and more anguish and more trial. Pure prayer only takes possession of our hearts for good when we no longer desire any special light or grace or consolation for ourselves, and pray without any thought of our own satisfaction.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The thing that crushed me was that I had never learned to dance.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The mercy of God demands to be known and recognized and set apart from everything else and praised and adored in joy.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Hope is proportionate to detachment. It brings our souls into the state of the most perfect detachment. In doing so, it restores all values by setting them in their right order. Hope empties our hands in order that we may work with them. It shows us that we have something to work for, and teaches us how to work for it.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “I simply have no business being in love and playing around with a girl, however innocently... After all I am supposed to be a monk with a vow of chastity and though I have kept my vow – I wonder if I can keep it indefinitely and still play this gorgeous game!”
Thomas Merton Quote: “What is the good of religion without personal spiritual direction?”
Thomas Merton Quote: “As a matter of fact, it is often harder to manifest the good that is in us than the evil.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “TO say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name. If, therefore, I do anything or think anything or say anything or know anything that is not purely for the love of God, it cannot give me peace, or rest, or fulfillment, or.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “But the pride of those who live as if they believed they were better than anyone else is rooted in a secret failure to believe in their own goodness.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “We have been fashioned, in all our perfection, each according to his own nature, and all our natures ordered and harmonized together, that man’s reason and his love might fit in this one last element, this God-given key to the meaning of the whole.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The distinctive characteristic of religious meditation is that it is a search for truth which springs from love and which seeks to possess the truth not only by knowledge but also by love.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “If we are going to love others at all, we must make up our minds to love them well. Otherwise our love is a delusion. The first step to unselfish love is the recognition that our love may be deluded. We must first of all purify our love by renouncing the pleasure of loving as an end in itself. As long as pleasure is our end, we will be dishonest with ourselves and with those we love. We will not seek their good, but our own pleasure.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Our five sense are dulled by inordinate pleasure. Penance makes them keen, gives them back their natural vitality, and more. Penance clears the eye of conscience and of reason.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Freedom is perfect when no other love can impede our desire to love God.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “By “prayer of the heart” we seek God himself present in the depths of our being and meet him there by invoking the name of Jesus in faith, wonder and love.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “For pride, which is the inordinate attribution of goods and values and glories to one’s own contingent self, cannot exist where there is no contingent self to which anything can be attributed.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis but first of all by living.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Heaven and earth come together in the Unbegun, And all is foolishness, all is unknown, all is like The lights of an idiot, all is without mind! To obey is to close the beak and fall into Unbeginning.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “And when I thought there was no God and no love and no mercy, you were leading me all the while into the midst of His love and His mercy and taking me, without my knowing anything about it, to the house that would hide me in the secret of His Face.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The proud man loves his own illusion and self-sufficiency. The spiritually poor man loves his very insufficiency.”
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