Thomas Merton

The poet enters into himself in order to create. The contemplative enters into God in order to be created.   — Thomas Merton

For unless Our Lady is recognized as the Mother of God and as the queen of all the saints and angels and as the hope of the world, faith in God will remain incomplete. How can we ask him for all the things he would have us hope for if we…

In God there can be no selfishness, because the Three Selves of God are three subsistent relations of selflessness, overflowing and superabounding in joy in the perfection of their gift of their one life to one another. — Thomas Merton

This, then, is our desert; to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the cross. — Thomas Merton

Duty does not have to be dull. Love can make it beautiful and fill it with life. — Thomas Merton

The eyes of the saint make all beauty holy, and the hands of the saint consecrate everything they touch to the glory of God. — Thomas Merton

Ultimately, faith is the only key to the universe. — Thomas Merton

The deep secret of the mystery of faith lies in the fact that it is a “baptism” in the death and sacrifice of Christ. We can only give ourselves to God when Christ, by his grace, “dies” and rises again spiritually within us. — Thomas…

This, then, is our desert; to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the cross. —Thomas Merton

If Mary is believed to be assumed into heaven, it is because we too are one day, by the grace of God, to dwell where she is. — Thomas Merton