Thomas Merton Quotes About Labor

Quotes about: Labor

• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

• Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice.

  Thomas Merton

  Peace, Sacrifice, Heroism

  Thomas Merton (2010). “The Nonviolent Alternative”, p.35, Macmillan

• It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Ordinary

  Thomas Merton (1963). “Life and Holiness”, [New York] : Herder and Herder

• Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

  Thomas Merton

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Profound

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.81, New Directions Publishing

• The land which thou goest to possess is not like the land of Egypt from whence thou camest out... For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord...Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near...Why do you spend money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which doth not satisfy you?

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Egypt, Land

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

• I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Exercise, Light

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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