Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.
Thomas MertonTo Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.
Thomas MertonWe are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation.
Thomas MertonCreation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.
Thomas Merton