Quotes from Thomas Merton
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
- Thomas Merton
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
- Thomas Merton
I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.
- Thomas Merton
Today will never come again.
- Thomas Merton
We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.
- Thomas Merton
Take more time, cover less ground.
- Thomas Merton
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
- Thomas Merton
"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
- Thomas Merton
True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
- Thomas Merton
Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.
- Thomas Merton
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
- Thomas Merton
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
- Thomas Merton