The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.
Thomas MertonIt is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Thomas MertonThe light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.
Thomas MertonNothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
Thomas Merton