Thomas Merton Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must pass beyond everything that can be seen and enter into darkness. Since nothing that can be heard is God, to find Him we must enter into silence. Since God cannot be imagined, anything our imagination tells us about Him is ultimately a lie and therefore we cannot know Him as He really is unless we pass beyond everything that can be imagined and enter into an obscurity without images and without the likeness of any created thing.

  Thomas Merton

  Lying, Imagination, Silence

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

• The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Lying, Errors

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.212, Shambhala Publications

• 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

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