Quotes Tagged With :merton

If we were able to distill all human experience to its essence, it would be a question on the lips of....

The story of the Fall tells us in mythical language that "original sin" is not simply a stigma arbitrarily....

In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

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

We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and....

Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already....

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

All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old....

As a matter of face, Zen is at present most fashionable in America among those who are least concerned....