Thomas Merton Quotes.
I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery.
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.
Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed – but hate these things in yourself, not in another.
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn’t already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to “like” one another.
