Thomas Merton Quotes About Journey

Quotes about: Journey

• Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.

  Thomas Merton

  Journey, Differences, Joy

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

• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspiring, Life Changing, Moon

  Thomas Merton (1970). “The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

• How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?

  Thomas Merton

  Journey, Men, Cities

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

• The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Journey, Acting

  Thomas Merton (1999). “Mystics and Zen Masters”, p.92, Macmillan

• Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Heart, Journey

  Thomas Merton (1975). “The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton”, p.296, New Directions Publishing

• Our real journey in life is interior.

  Thomas Merton

  Real, Journey, Conformity

  Thomas Merton (1975). “The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton”, p.296, New Directions Publishing

• And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.

  Thomas Merton

  Believe, Journey, Men

• It is not humility to insist on being someone that you are not. It is as much as saying that you know better than God who you are and who you ought to be. How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city? How do you expect to reach your own perfection by leading somebody else's life? His sanctity will never be yours; you must have the humility to work out your own salvation in a darkness where you are absolutely alone.

  Thomas Merton

  Humility, Journey, Men

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

• For although God is right with us and in us and out of us and all through us, we have to go on journeys to find him.

  Thomas Merton

  Journey, Goes On

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