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List of Thomas Merton Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 608 inspiring quotes by Thomas Merton.

About Thomas Merton

  • Born: January 31, 1915
  • Died: December 10, 1968
  • Occupation: Writer
    • They were in the world and not of it--not because they were saints, but in a different way: because they were artists. the integrity of an artist lifts a man above the level of the world without delivering him from it.
    Wisdom Integrity Artist
    The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
    Sin Illusion Pure
    We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
    Imagination Kind Obscure
    For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
    Wisdom Practice Needs
    Show us your christ, lady, after this our exile, yes: but show him to us also now, show him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
    Wisdom Christ Exile
    The married man and the mother of a christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls capable of sanctification and transformation in christ.
    Christian Mother Men
    Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.
    Men Facts Made
    Lovely morning! how lovely life can be!
    Morning Lovely Lovely Life
    Each individual christian and each new age of the church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of christian life.
    Christian Age Church
    The pleasure of a good act is something to be remembered - not in order to feed our complacency but in order to remind us that virtuous actions are not only possible and valuable, but that they can become easier and more delightful and more fruitful than the acts of vice which oppose and frustrate them.
    Order Complacency Vices
    Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.
    Religious Consciousness Form
    It is by the holy spirit that we love those who are united to us in christ. the more plentifully we have received of the spirit of christ, the more perfectly we are able to love them: and the more we love them the more we receive the spirit. it is clear, however, that since we love them by the spirit who is given to us by jesus, it is jesus himself who loves them in us.
    Wisdom Jesus Able
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