Quotes from Thomas Merton
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
- Thomas Merton
We do not exist for ourselves.
- Thomas Merton
If you want to have a spiritual life you must unify your life. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all.
- Thomas Merton
Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.
- Thomas Merton
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
- Thomas Merton
You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.
- Thomas Merton
Let me rest in Your will and be silent. Then the light of Your joy will warm my life. Its fire will burn in my heart and shine for Your glory. This is what I live for. Amen, amen.
- Thomas Merton
We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.
- Thomas Merton
Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
- Thomas Merton
That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.
- Thomas Merton
There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.
- Thomas Merton
To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.
- Thomas Merton