The Silent Life Quotes

“هیچ کس نمی تواند به جستجوی خدا برآید مگر آنکه از هم اکنون او را یافته باشد و هیچ کس نمی تواند خدا را بیابد مگر آنکه پیش‌تر از سوی خدا یافته شده باشد”
― Thomas Merton, The Silent Life

“The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.”
― Thomas Merton, The Silent Life

“He goes on to make a profound psychological observation. If, he says, we find that we are unwilling or unable to give up some particular practice or observance for the sake of some other worthy and necessary task, and if we find that when we cannot keep to our plan of observance we are sad, angry, indignant, or otherwise disturbed, it means that we are seeking these things for their own sakes and that we are therefore losing sight of our true objective which is purity of heart. For in this case the practices we follow are not purifying our heart of its selfish passions, but strengthening those very passions in our soul.”
― Thomas Merton, The Silent Life

“The simple, chaste lines of a monastic Church, built perhaps by unskilled hands in the wilderness, may well say infinitely more in praise of God than the pretentious enormities of costly splendor that are erected to be looked at rather than to be prayed in.”
― Thomas Merton, The Silent Life

“No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God.”
― Thomas Merton, The Silent Life