Quotes from Thomas Merton
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
- Thomas Merton
There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.
- Thomas Merton
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
- Thomas Merton
We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.
- Thomas Merton
I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
- Thomas Merton
Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it.
- Thomas Merton
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
- Thomas Merton
The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.
- Thomas Merton
A faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.
- Thomas Merton
Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
- Thomas Merton
The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.
- Thomas Merton
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.
- Thomas Merton