I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.
Thomas Merton"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
Thomas MertonThere is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.
Thomas MertonIf there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.
Thomas Merton