Thomas Merton

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God’s mercy to…

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

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

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

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve…

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his…

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

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

Perhaps I am stronger than I think…

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

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not…

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

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

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left…

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