Thomas Merton Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Dream, Mean

• To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

  Thomas Merton

  Light, Events, Hell

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

• People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Ideas, People

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell.

  Thomas Merton

  Self, Worship, Hell

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

• To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Lying, Frustration

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

• If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

  Thomas Merton

  Political, Want, Study

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