Quotes from Thomas Merton
Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.
- Thomas Merton
Love is our true destiny.
- Thomas Merton
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
- Thomas Merton
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
- Thomas Merton
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.
- Thomas Merton
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
If you have love you will do all things well.
- Thomas Merton
Love is an intensification of life.
- Thomas Merton
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
- Thomas Merton
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
Love is the door to eternity.
- Thomas Merton
To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.
- Thomas Merton