Thomas Merton Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Valentines Day, Fate

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.32, Macmillan

• Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Thomas Merton (1976). “The Power and Meaning of Love”

• To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Life, Wisdom

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

• Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "No Man is an Island".

• Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Wisdom, Jesus

• Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Valentines Day, Care

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

• Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Wisdom, Prayer

  "New Seeds of Contemplation".

• Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spring, Price Tag

• Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Exercise

  "The Wisdom of the Desert".

• If you have love you will do all things well.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Inspirational, Wells

• We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Selfish, Loving Others

• Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Perfect, Emotion

  Thomas Merton (1998). “Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected”, p.26, University of Notre Dame Pess

• A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Book, Evil

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Heaven, Leave Me Alone

• Love is the door to eternity.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Love Is, Doors

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Hate

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.47, Macmillan

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