Quotes about Devotion
It would be a sin to place any limit upon our hope in God. We must love Him without measure. All sin is rooted in the failure of love. All sin is a withdrawal of love from God, in order to love something else.
- Thomas Merton
The climate of this prayer is, then, one of awareness, gratitude and a totally obedient love which seeks nothing but to please God.
- Thomas Merton
It can be said, without fear of error, that our meditation is as good as our faith.
- Thomas Merton
But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact pleases You.
- Thomas Merton
The mercy of God demands to be known and recognized and set apart from everything else and praised and adored in joy.
- Thomas Merton
Get warm any way you can, and love God and pray.
- Thomas Merton
I don't even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.
- Thomas Merton
Freedom is perfect when no other love can impede our desire to love God
- Thomas Merton
I need my heart to be moved by you.
- Thomas Merton
We do not see God in contemplation - we know Him by love: for his pure love and when we taste the experience of loving God for his own sake alone, we know by experience who and what he is.
- Thomas Merton
As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him.
- Thomas Merton
For it seems to me that the first responsibility of a man of faith is to make his faith really part of his own life, not by rationalizing it but by living it.
- Thomas Merton