John Anderson

“So to listen to God means, first of all, to recognize our helplessness, our stupidity, our blindness and our ignorance. How can we ever hear Him if we think of ourselves as experts in religion?”
― Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas

“The only essential is not an idea or an ideal: it is God Himself, Who cannot be found by weighing the present against the future or the past but only by sinking into the heart of the present as it is.”
― Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas

“Thus by loving we know God in God and through God for in love the Three Divine Persons are made known to us, sealing our souls not with a static likeness but with the impression of their infinite Life. Our souls are sealed with the character of God as the air is full of sunshine. Glory to God in the highest, who has sealed us with His holiness, sealed us all together, brothers, in His Christ. Amen. Amen.”
― Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas

“discovery of God and of all things in Him. This is a wine without intoxication, a joy that has no poison hidden in it. It is life without death.”
― Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas