Quotes By 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.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

A daydream is an evasion.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.