Thomas Merton Quotes About College

Quotes about: College

• I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them - the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.

  Thomas Merton

  Sweet, College, Years

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, College, Hands

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.81, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

  College, America, Looks

  Thomas Merton (1974). “A Thomas Merton Reader”, Image

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