It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.
Thomas MertonThe only right way: to love and serve the man of the modern world, but not simply to succumb, with him, to all his illusions about the world.
Thomas MertonGod has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.
Thomas MertonThe degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.
Thomas Merton