Quotes by : Thomas Merton

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, and....

To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact....

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They....

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

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

Most of the world is either asleep or dead. The religious people are, for the most part, asleep. The....

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

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.