Thomas Merton Quotes

Best 20+ Thomas Merton Messages, Quotes, and Images

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.

When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

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