More Quotes by Thomas Merton
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
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. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
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.
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
