Quotes by : Thomas Merton

His vision was religious and clean, and therefore his paintings were without decoration or superfluous....

If we live with possibilities we are exiles from the present which is given us by God to be our own,....

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

To allow oneself to be carried awayBy a multitude of conflicting concerns,To surrender to too many demands,...To....

Violence is essentially wordless and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have....

Pride makes us artificial humility makes us real

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky....

One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires.....

Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest....

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.