Quotes about Spirituality
What a strange thing! In filling myself I had emptied myself
— Thomas Merton
This unity in love is one of the most characteristic works of the inner self, so that paradoxically the inner "I" is not only isolated but at the same time united with others on a higher plane, which is in fact the plane of spiritual solitude.
— Thomas Merton
So much depends on our idea of God! Yet no idea of Him, however pure and perfect, is adequate to express Him as He really is. Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him. We
— Thomas Merton
If I am to love my brother, I must somehow enter deep into the mystery of God's love for him.
— Thomas Merton
I think poets owe a special adoration to the third person of the Holy Trinity, for by these tongues of fire all men are made poets and philosophers, and that is the way Christ would have it on earth.
— Thomas Merton
Above all, enter into the Church's liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life—let its rhythm work its way into your body and soul.
— Thomas Merton
It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so that the contemplative is at the same time, question and answer.
— Thomas Merton
I will give them a heart to understand that I am Yahweh, and they shall be my people and I will be their God when they return to me with all their heart. —JEREMIAH 24:7
— Thomas Merton
No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.
— Thomas Merton
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with his mind and lips, but in a certain sense with his whole being.
— Thomas Merton
All good meditative prayer is a conversion of our entire self to God.
— Thomas Merton
We enter into possession of God when He invades all our faculties with His light and His infinite fire. We do not "possess" Him until He takes full possession of us.
— Thomas Merton