Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.
Thomas MertonBut if you want to identify me, ask me not where I live, or what I like to eat, or how I comb my hair, but ask me what I think I am living for.
Thomas MertonThe whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
Thomas MertonWhen you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.
Thomas Merton