Thomas Merton

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. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#chill #clearly #death #eyes #heart

It is by desiring to grow in love that we receive the Holy Spirit, and the thirst for more charity is the effect of this more abundant reception. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#love #love

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#inspirational #inspirational

There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know and to see Him, and therefore it cannot be otherwise. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#intellect #knowledge #nature

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#pleasure #selfishness #age

Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#art-quotes #finding #life-quotes #loosing #time

If you find God with great ease, perhaps it is not God you have found. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #faith

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

#inspirational

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#holy-spirit #men

Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #happiness #love #faith