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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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