Quotes by Thomas Merton

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.