Quotes by : Thomas Merton

If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

The wise man has struggled to find You in his wisdom, and he has failed. The just man has striven to....

I will not fear for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

For Abelard, the death of Christ on the Cross did not, strictly speaking, redeem man: it only offered....

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and....

And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,And as each blow was paid with Blood,You paid me also....

In the use of force, one simplifies the situation by assuming that the evil to be overcome is clear-cut,....

It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as 'new men' regenerated by the Holy....

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

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid....