Our Lady is…
It is Our Lady who is working in me in these days, trying to awaken in me, bring out new worlds to light, draw me into her Christ Who is the center of all. And she does this when I go to her.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Creation was given…
Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people’s souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Simplicity of God…
No matter how simple discourse may be, it is never simple enough. No matter how simple thought may be, it is never simple enough. No matter how simple love may be, it is never simple enough. The only thing left is the simplicity of the soul in God, or better, the simplicity of God.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Let God lead you to…
Be content that you are not yet a saint, even though you realize that the only thing worth living for is sanctity. Then you will be satisfied to let God lead you to sanctity by paths that you cannot understand. You will travel in darkness in which you will no longer be concerned with yourself and no longer compare yourself to other men. Those who have gone by that way have finally found out that sanctity is in everything and that God is all around them, they suddenly wake up and find that the joy of God is everywhere.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Go on journeys…
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.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Love is the spiritual life…
Love, in fact, is the spiritual life; and without it, all other exercises of the spirit are emptied of content.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
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