Quotes by : Thomas Merton

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all....

The fact that our being necessarily demands to be expressed in action should not lead us to believe that....

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

We have what we seek. It is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself known to....

It is this kind of consciousness, exacerbated to an extreme, which has made inevitable the so called....

Bodily agitation, then, is an enemy to the spirit. And by agitation I do not necessarily mean exercise....

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those....

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that....

Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.