Quotes from Thomas Merton

Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another.