Quotes from Thomas Merton
In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your peace of heart.
- Thomas Merton
I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.
- Thomas Merton
Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.
- Thomas Merton
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
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
- Thomas Merton
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- Thomas Merton
The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.
- Thomas Merton
God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.
- Thomas Merton
We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.
- Thomas Merton
My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.
- Thomas Merton
Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.
- Thomas Merton
The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.
- Thomas Merton