Maxioms by Thomas Merton
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell
Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as read more
Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no read more
Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
