Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.
Thomas MertonI see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.
Thomas MertonThe Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.
Thomas MertonWe must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.
Thomas Merton