Quotes By Thomas Merton

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

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

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.