854 Quotes by Thomas Merton

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

The true contemplative is one who has discovered the art of finding leisure even in the midst of his work, by working with such a spirit of detachment and recollection that even his work is a prayer

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life to thought in such a way that we are always growing, always experiencing new things in the old and old things in the new. Thus life is always new.