People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.
Thomas MertonThe whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas MertonThere is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
Thomas MertonAnd the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.
Thomas MertonThe land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out... For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord...Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near...Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which doth not satisfy you?
Thomas Merton