Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Thomas Merton quotes, Thomas Merton sayings, and Thomas Merton proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
If you do not know your own identity, who is going to identify you?...If you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I am living for, in detail, and ask me what I think is keeping me from living fully for the thing I want to live for.Thomas Merton
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Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.Thomas Merton
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There is no wilderness so terrible, so beautiful, so arid, so fruitful, as the wilderness of compassion. It is the only desert that shall truly flourish like a lily. Thomas Merton
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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.Thomas Merton
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Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them Thomas Merton
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in themThomas Merton
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.Thomas Merton
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Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.Thomas Merton
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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.Thomas Merton
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That is what gives Him the greatest glory—the achieving of great things through the weakest and most improbable means.Thomas Merton
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