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And when I thought there was no God and no love and no mercy, you were leading me all the while into the midst of His love and His mercy and taking me, without my knowing anything about it, to the house that would hide me in the secret of His Face.
— Thomas Merton
The humble man also loves himself, and seeks to be loved and honored, not because love and honor are due to him but because they are not due to him. He seeks to be loved by the mercy of God.
— Thomas Merton
What I need most of all is the grace to really accept God as He gives Himself to me in every situation. "He came unto His own and His own received Him not." Good Shepherd, You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles. But please don't get tired of looking for me! I know You won't. For You have found me. All I have to do is stay found. April 11, 1948
— Thomas Merton
It is a terrible thing to think of the grace that is wasted in this world
— Thomas Merton
Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.
— Thomas Merton
IT is not we who choose to awaken ourselves, but God Who chooses to awaken us.
— Thomas Merton
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows, not by clarity and substance but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis.
— Thomas Merton
The humble man begs for a share in what everybody else has received. He too desires to be filled to overflowing with the kindness and mercy of God.
— Thomas Merton
The one thing that seems to me morally certain is that this was really a grace, and a great grace.
— Thomas Merton
Gerçek anlamda derin düÅŸünme; psikolojik bir hile deÄŸil, teolojik bir lütuftur.
— Thomas Merton
Real self-conquest is the conquest of ourselves not by ourselves but by the Holy Spirit. Self-conquest is really self-surrender.
— Thomas Merton
To be an acorn is to have a taste for being an oak tree. Habitual grace brings with it all the Christian virtues in their seed.
— Thomas Merton