Quotes about Thomas Merton

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

#Thomas Merton

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a...

#Thomas Merton

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

#Thomas Merton

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

#Thomas Merton

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything...

#Thomas Merton

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the...

#Thomas Merton

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him,...

#Thomas Merton

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and...

#Thomas Merton

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my...

#Thomas Merton

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

#Thomas Merton

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart:...

#Thomas Merton

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me...

#Thomas Merton