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 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 MertonOctober is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.
Thomas MertonA tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]. It โconsents,โ so to speak, to [God's] creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree
Thomas Merton