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Thomas Merton Quotes


A 20th century Anglo-American Catholic writer.
Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was a 20th century Anglo-American Catholic writer. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name Father Louis.

Here are some famous quotes by Thomas Merton.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

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We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another.

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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

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I will not fear for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

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We have what we seek. It is there all the time and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.

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Violence is essentially wordless and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

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My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though I were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

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There is not a flower that opens not a seed that falls into the ground and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.

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The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure a cooler blue the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.