Thomas Merton Quotes About Decisions

Quotes about: Decisions

• We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Decisions You Make, Self

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

• If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Decision, Useless

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.105, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were bound to be affected, some remotely, but some very directly and near-at-hand, by my own choices and decisions and desires, as my own life would also be formed and modified according to theirs.

  Thomas Merton

  Destiny, Men, Hands

• Our whole life is a meditation of our last decision - the only decision that matters.

  Thomas Merton

  Meditation, Decision, Matter

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.105, Macmillan

• To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.

  Thomas Merton

  Responsibility, Decision, Faces

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.74, New Directions Publishing

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