Entering the Silence Quotes

“How free you can become if you stop worrying about things that don’t concern you!”
― Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer – Thomas Merton's Passionate Journals on Vocation, Solitude, and Literary Career

“I don’t even need to know precisely what I am doing, except that I am acting for the love of God.”
― Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer – Thomas Merton's Passionate Journals on Vocation, Solitude, and Literary Career

“Nevertheless, every day love corners me somewhere and surrounds me with peace without my having to look very far or very hard or do anything special. God”
― Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer – Thomas Merton's Passionate Journals on Vocation, Solitude, and Literary Career

“Jesus, I put myself in Your hands. I rest in Your wisdom that has arranged all things for me. I promise to stop jumping out of Your arms to try and walk on my own feet, forgetting that I am no longer on the ground or near it!”
― Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer

“JMJT February 1, 1942. Septuagesima.”
― Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer – Thomas Merton's Passionate Journals on Vocation, Solitude, and Literary Career

“To see how seriously men take things and yet how little their seriousness profits them. Their tragedy makes our mediocrity all the more terrible.”
― Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer – Thomas Merton's Passionate Journals on Vocation, Solitude, and Literary Career

“They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise.”
― Thomas Merton, Entering the Silence: Becoming a Monk and a Writer – Thomas Merton's Passionate Journals on Vocation, Solitude, and Literary Career