Thomas Merton Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Father, Men

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.189, Shambhala Publications

• Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age of the Church Fathers. For that very reason, the urge to seek a path of spiritual light can be a subtle temptation to sin. It certainly is sin if it means a frank rejection of the burden of our age, an escape into unreality and spiritual illusion, so as not to share the misery of other men.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Father, Mean

• You pray best when the mirror of your soul is empty of every image except the Image of the Invisible Father.

  Thomas Merton

  Father, Mirrors, Soul

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.128, Macmillan

• For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You.

  Thomas Merton

  Father, Real, Son

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.82, Macmillan

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