Thomas Merton Quotes About Risk

Quotes about: Risk

• Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

  Thomas Merton

  Risk

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

• Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Men, Risk

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.21, Shambhala Publications

• To hope is to risk frustration. Make up your mind to risk frustration.

  Thomas Merton

  Frustration, Risk, Mind

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

• The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every man and woman has to confront, in the depths of his own soul, when he seeks to love merely for his own pleasure.And yet the men of our time do not love with enough courage to risk even discomfort or inconvenience.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Soul, Risk

• I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.

  Thomas Merton

  Acceptance, People, Risk

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.6, Sounds True

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