Thomas Merton Quotes

• 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.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Inspirational, Spirituality

  Tags in World, Seems, Glory, Feel, Feet, Reading, Around

• Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Joy, Soul

  Tags in Good, Peace, Heart, Feet

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

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Due, Advertising, Products, Treat

• 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.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Made, Man, Live, Desire

• A daydream is an evasion.

  Thomas Merton

  Tags in Evasion

• Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Ability, Art

  Tags in Time

• In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Sin, Crowds

• The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another

  Thomas Merton

  Tags in Awareness, Compassion, Interdependence

• Push on — keep moving.

  Thomas Merton

  Tags in Persistence

• Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope, Purpose, Relationships

• It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

  Thomas Merton

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Solitude, Compassion, Silence

Thomas Merton (51)

Birth:	31st January, 1915
Death:	10th December, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Author, Poet, Writer

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