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Thomas Merton
“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”
Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

Thomas Merton
“To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.”
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton
“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton
“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds”
Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton
“I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not ask of me.”
Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas

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