The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

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.

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out.

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.