Man must believe in something and that in which he believes becomes his God. — Thomas Merton
What do you believe in? To what are you true and loyal?
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Everyday Saints
When we think of the saints, our minds usually turn to cloistered nuns, pious priests and other individuals who seemed to walk a straight path…
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. — Thomas Merton
Consider today signing up for a class or seminar to better yourself.
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. — Thomas Merton
During your homework or job, if you feel that you are doing something that is just passable, immediately stop and put your entire soul into…
Unable to rest in anything we achieve, we determine to forget our discontent in a ceaseless quest for new satisfactions. In this pursuit, desire itself becomes our chief satisfaction. — Thomas Merton
For the rest of the day, lay aside all wants, desires and wishes, and try to be content with the things you already have.
Indeed, too often the weakest thing about our faith is the illusion that our faith is strong, when the “strength” we feel is only the intensity of emotion or of sentiment, which has nothing to do with real faith. — Thomas Merton
Take 10 minutes today to contemplate the plain truth and realness of your faith, absent of emotion or distraction, in fullest clarity.
Thomas Merton: Pivotal Modern Contemplative
Country: United States
Born: January 31, 1915
Died: December 10, 1968
Religion: Roman Catholic
Born: January 31, 1915
Died: December 10, 1968
Religion: Roman Catholic
Writer, poet, anti-war activist and Trappist monk Thomas Merton helped make Catholicism relevant for a new generation and introduced many to contemplation.
The man who sweats under his mask, whose role makes him itch with discomfort, who hates the division in himself, is already beginning to be free. But God help him if all he wants is the mask the other man is wearing, just because the other one does not seem to be sweating or itching. Maybe he is no longer human enough to itch. — Thomas Merton
Let down your guard today around those in your life without replacing it with some other guard.
Perhaps if I only realized that I do not admire what everyone seems to admire, I would really begin to live after all. I would be liberated from the painful duty of saying what I really do not think and of acting in a way that betrays God’s truth and the integrity of my own soul. — Thomas Merton
Today, don’t follow along with the crowd; instead, remember who you are, where you came from and where you are going.
The whole Christian life is a life in which…the more we progress, the poorer we get so that the man who has progressed most, is totally poor — he has to depend directly on God. He’s got nothing left in himself. — Thomas Merton
FAST from eating one meal today. PRAY for the realization that you are not in this all alone and for the strength to depend on…
