The primordial blessing, 'increase and multiply', has suddenly become a hemorrhage of terror. We are numbered in billions, and massed together, marshalled, numbered, marched here and there, taxed, drilled, armed, worked to the point of insensibility, dazed by information, drugged by entertainment, surfeited with everything, nauseated with the human race and with ourselves, nauseated with life.
Thomas MertonThe peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable
Thomas MertonThere is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.
Thomas MertonYou pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.
Thomas Merton