Famous Thomas Merton Quotes

  • The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept. – Thomas Merton

    The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless … beyond speech … beyond concept.– Thomas Merton

  • My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again. – Thomas Merton

    My mother was informing me, by mail, that she was about to die, and would never see me again.– Thomas Merton

  • Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation. – Thomas Merton

    Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation.– Thomas Merton

  • Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited. – Thomas Merton

    Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited.– Thomas Merton

  • Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist. – Thomas Merton

    Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.– Thomas Merton

  • All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient-¦ – Thomas Merton

    All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient-¦– Thomas Merton

  • In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him. – Thomas Merton

    In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.– Thomas Merton

  • The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods. – Thomas Merton

    The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.– Thomas Merton

  • The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them. – Thomas Merton

    The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.– Thomas Merton

  • But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question. – Thomas Merton

    But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.– Thomas Merton