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Thomas Merton Quotes
«Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. This is not just a fable or a nice story. It is true. If we abandon ourselves to God and forget ourselves, we see it sometimes, and we see it maybe frequently. God shows Himself everywhere, in everything - in people and in things and in nature and in events. It becomes very obvious that He is everywhere and in everything and we cannot be without Him. It's impossible. It's simply impossible. The only thing is that we don't see it.»
Author: Thomas Merton
«The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.»
«Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.»
«bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.»
Author: Thomas Merton
«Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.»
Author: Thomas Merton
«The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.»
Author: Thomas Merton
«The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell, ... It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.»
Author: Thomas Merton
«Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.»
Author: Thomas Merton
«The Bible is not primarily a written or printed text to be scrutinized in private, in a scholar's study or a contemplative cell. It is a body of oral messages, announcements, prophecies, promulgations, recitals, histories, songs of praise, lamentations, etc., which are meant either to be uttered or at least read aloud, or chanted, or sung, or recited in a community convoked for the purpose of a living celebration.»
Author: Thomas Merton
