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"31 Thomas Merton Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 31 January 1915. Died: 10 December 1968 | Writer | Poet | Theologian |

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them

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

Love True Destiny Find
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Balance Happiness Harmony Intensity
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We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

Alone Also Begin Convinced
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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

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

Earth Event Every His
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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Contradictions God Life Me
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Deepening Find Future Hope
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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Christ Dry Eyes Feet
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

America Anything Begin Catalogue
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The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

Biggest Human Little Settle
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Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Anything Anything Else Attachment Else
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The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

Less Squeeze You Tighter
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Desire Either End Image
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

Beginning Find Fit Image
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

About Been Discover Discovery
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art Enables Find Lose
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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.

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

Capacities Choices Deepest Enable
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I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

Body Cannot Conform Even
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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

Constantly Darkness Enlightened Even
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Analysis Else Existence Fails
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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Conscience Demands Difficult Fidelity
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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Artificial Humility Makes Pride
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Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Am I Am I Think Perhaps
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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Classroom Done Learning Least
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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

Hell History Modern Nations
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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

Attentive Being Courage God
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We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.

Because God Others Ourselves
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Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Care Effects Good Leaves
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On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.

Borders Came Day Down
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Thomas Merton Quotes & Sayings