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If we have not silence, God is not heard in our music. If we have no rest God, does not bless our work.
— Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
— Thomas Merton
O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.
— Thomas Merton
Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.
— Thomas Merton
The only unhappiness is not to love God.
— Thomas Merton
There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self.
— Thomas Merton
You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.
— Thomas Merton
When ambition ends, happiness begins.
— Thomas Merton
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
— Thomas Merton
I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.
— Paul Merton
Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.
— Thomas Merton
There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.
— Thomas Merton
I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
— Thomas Merton
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born.
— Robert K. Merton
For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.
— Thomas Merton
Love is a special way of being alive.
— Thomas Merton
The religious answer is not really religious if it's not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition.
— Thomas Merton
By faith we know God without seeing Him. By hope we possess God without feeling His presence.
— Thomas Merton
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
— Thomas Merton
The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
— Thomas Merton
If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."
— Thomas Merton
We discover our true selves in love.
— Thomas Merton
Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
— Thomas Merton
Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.
— Thomas Merton
The root of war is fear.
— Thomas Merton
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him ... who loves us, who is near to us ...
— Thomas Merton
We love the things we pretend to laugh at.
— Thomas Merton
Diversification is your buddy.
— Merton Miller
They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise.
— Thomas Merton
We must make the choices that enable usto fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. — Thomas Merton
In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
— Thomas Merton
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
— Thomas Merton
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
— Thomas Merton
Silence is not broken by speech, but by the anxiety to be heard.
— Thomas Merton
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your journey if you take the road to another man's city?(100)
— Thomas Merton
Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom.
— Thomas Merton
For he who knows does not speak, He who speaks does not know" (12) And "The Wise Man gives instruction Without the use of speech." (13)
— Thomas Merton
When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.
— Paul Merton
My God, I pray better to you by breathing. I pray better to you by walking than by talking.
— Thomas Merton
To be a saint is to be yourself.
— Thomas Merton
I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?
— Paul Merton
In fact, I don't watch a lot of contemporary comedy for fear of being influenced by it.
— Paul Merton
Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.
— Thomas Merton
I don't even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.
— Thomas Merton
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
— Thomas Merton
The Breviary was hard to learn, and every step was labor and confusion, not to mention the mistakes and perplexities I got myself into. However,
— Thomas Merton
In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
— Thomas Day
There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.
— Thomas Merton
The end of the world will be legal.
— Thomas Merton
True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
— Thomas Merton
Junk bonds prove there's nothing magical in a Aaa bond rating.
— Merton Miller
We put words between ourselves and things.
— Thomas Merton
Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.
— Thomas Merton
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
— Thomas Merton
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
— Thomas Merton
Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real
— Thomas Merton
If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.
— Thomas Merton
If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.
— Paul Merton
Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
— Thomas Merton
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness
— Thomas Merton
There must be a time of day when the man who makes plans forgets his plans, and acts as if he had no plans at all.
— Thomas Merton
To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.
— Thomas Merton
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
— Thomas Merton
Whose silence are you?
— Thomas Merton
The love of pleasure is destined by its very nature to defeat itself and end in frustration.
— Thomas Merton
There are ways that seem to men to be good, the end whereof is in the depths of hell.
— Thomas Merton
We are united to Him in darkness, because we have to hope.
— Thomas Merton
There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.
— Thomas Merton
Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.
— Thomas Merton
The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.
— Thomas Merton
I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.
— Paul Merton
For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.
— Thomas Merton
Love, in fact, is the spiritual life; and without it, all other exercises of the spirit are emptied of content.
— Thomas Merton
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
— Thomas Merton
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.
— Thomas Merton
Love is its own reward ...
— Thomas Merton
True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
— Thomas Merton
Lovely morning! How lovely life can be!
— Thomas Merton
