Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.
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 MertonThe real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.
Thomas MertonOur technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved.
Thomas Merton