Quotes from Thomas Merton
In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.
- Thomas Merton
I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.
- Thomas Merton
Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.
- Thomas Merton
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.
- Thomas Merton
The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.
- Thomas Merton
To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.
- Thomas Merton
O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.
- Thomas Merton
God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.
- Thomas Merton
God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!
- Thomas Merton
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.
- Thomas Merton
No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.
- Thomas Merton
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
- Thomas Merton