When 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 MertonSpread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength.
Thomas MertonEach particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.
Thomas MertonNow anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they first be asked.
Thomas MertonFor although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.
Thomas MertonThere are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.
Thomas Merton