God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of him. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But if I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of Him that I was meant to embody, I shall be full of his actuality and find him everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere.
Thomas MertonActions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
Thomas MertonWe do not want to be beginners. But let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything else but beginners, all our life!
Thomas MertonIt is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.
Thomas MertonLove not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.
Thomas MertonWe live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.
Thomas Merton