Thomas Merton Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Answers, Creation

• Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Destiny, Work Out

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

• Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.

  Thomas Merton

  Nature, Rain, Moon

• Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything, or you look at your own life and your own part in the universe as infinitely rich, full of inexhaustible interest, opening out into the infinite further responsibilities for study and contemplation and interest and praise. Beyond all and in all is God.

  Thomas Merton

  Looks, Study, Infinite

  "Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation".

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