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Thomas Merton Truth

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.

– Thomas Merton

Strength Thomas Merton

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

– Thomas Merton

Space Thomas Merton

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

– Thomas Merton

Peace Thomas Merton Truth War

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.

– Thomas Merton

Peace Thomas Merton

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

– Thomas Merton

Music Nature Thomas Merton

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

– Thomas Merton

Love Relationship Thomas Merton

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.

– Thomas Merton

Learning Thomas Merton

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

– Thomas Merton

Inspirational Thomas Merton

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul.

– Thomas Merton

Imagination Men Thomas Merton Time

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.

– Thomas Merton

History Thomas Merton

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

– Thomas Merton

Happiness Thomas Merton

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

– Thomas Merton

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