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Thomas Merton Quote: “How can I be sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow of what I think others expect of me?”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation in the Life that is the Light of men.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “If we want to be spiritual, then, let us first of all live our lives. Let us not fear the responsibilities and the inevitable distractions of the work appointed for us by the will of God.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Providence, that is the love of God, is very wise in turning away from the self-will of men, and in having nothing to do with them, and leaving them to their own devices, as long as they are intent on governing themselves, to show them to what depths of futility and sorrow their own helplessness is capable of dragging them. And.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “If you have never had any distractions you don’t know how to pray.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The Mass is a memorial of Christ’s sacrifice, not in the sense of an exterior commemoration, but as a living and supremely efficacious re-presentation of that sacrifice, pouring out into our hearts the redemptive power of the Cross and the grace of the resurrection, which enables us to live in God.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “They were in the world and not of it – not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. The integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “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, quoted in Merton, p. 38.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “It would be a sin to place any limit upon our hope in God. We must love Him without measure. All sin is rooted in the failure of love. All sin is a withdrawal of love from God, in order to love something else.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Without courage we can never attain to true simplicity. Cowardice keeps us “double minded” – hesitating between the world and God.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence – it is unshakeable.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “No one is so wrong as the man who knows all the answers.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Life is not accomplishing some special work but attaining to a degree of consciousness and inner freedom which is beyond all works and attainments.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “But there is always a danger that the priest qualified to seriously direct religious will be overwhelmed by the demand for his services. His first duty, if he wants to be an effective director, is to see to his own interior life and take time for prayer and meditation, since he will never be able to give to others what he does not possess himself.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Stop thinking and start looking.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Nevertheless, every day love corners me somewhere and surrounds me with peace without my having to look very far or very hard or do anything special. God.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “A contemplative is not one who takes his prayer seriously, but one who takes God seriously, who is famished for truth, who seeks to live in generous simplicity, in the spirit. An ardent and sincere humility is the best protection for his life of prayer.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “In our present attitude the natural world remains a commodity to be bought and sold, not a sacred reality to be venerated.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “It is here, in this poverty, that man regains the eternal being that once he was, now is and evermore shall be.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone in the forest at night.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love...”
Thomas Merton Quote: “This time is given to me by God that I may live in it. It is not given to make something out of it, but given me to be stored away in eternity as my own.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The artistic experience, at its highest, was actually a natural analogue of mystical experience. It produced a kind of intuitive of perception.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “Love is a special way of being alive.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “True simplicity implies love and trust – it does not expect to be derided and rejected, any more than it expects to be admired and praised.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The time will come when they will sell you even your rain.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of a certain type of Christian thought has seriously impaired this capacity, which nonviolence must recover.”
Thomas Merton Quote: “And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.”
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