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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 don't always vote in general elections, but I think I've always voted Labour. — Paul 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

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face. — 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 believe, not because we want to know, but because we want to be. — Thomas Merton

We must make the choices that enable us
to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves. — Thomas Merton

The thing about improvisation is that it's not about what you say. It's listening to what other people say. It's about what you hear. — Paul Merton

If you found God with great ease, perhaps it's not God that you have found. — Thomas Merton

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

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace. — 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

In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything. — Thomas Merton

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. — Thomas Merton

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it. — Paul 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

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You! — Thomas 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

When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us. — 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

When sin becomes bitter, then Christ becomes sweet. Thomas Merton — Matt Chandler

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

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. — Thomas Merton

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real — Thomas Merton

must become convinced and penetrated by the realization that without my love for them they may perhaps not achieve the things God has willed for them. — 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

And like the old stereotype, I overcame my shyness by making my friends laugh. — Paul Merton

To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell. — Thomas Merton

IT is not we who choose to awaken ourselves, but God Who chooses to awaken us. — 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

I really don't take any interest at all in contemporary comedy. — Paul 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

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life. — Thomas Merton

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared. — Thomas Merton

It is a terrible thing to think of the grace that is wasted in this world, — Thomas Merton

Lovely morning! How lovely life can be! — Thomas Merton

Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us. — Thomas Merton

Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love ... — Thomas Merton