The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.
Thomas MertonGratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
Thomas MertonA tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying Him.... The more a tree is like itself, the more it is like Him.
Thomas MertonThe only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is All, and which therefore is no limited or individual thing: The All is no-thing, for if it were to be a single thing separated from all other things, it would not be All.
Thomas Merton