Thomas Merton Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

  Thomas Merton

  Christmas, Shepherds, Jerusalem

  "Evangelical Sunday School Lesson Commentary 2013-2014". Book by Lance Colkmire, p. 164, January 5, 2012.

• Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.

  Thomas Merton

  Order, World, May

  Thomas Merton (2010). “Seasons of Celebration”, p.98, Macmillan

• Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Artist, Alchemist

  Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (1985). “The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton”, p.379, New Directions Publishing

• Today will never come again.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Today

• In general, it can be said that no contemplative life is possible without ascetic self-discipline. One must learn to survive without the habit-forming luxuries which get such a hold on men today. I do not say that to be a contemplative one absolutely has to go without smoking or without alcohol, but certainly one must be able to use these things without being dominated by an uncontrolled need for them.

  Thomas Merton

  Men, Contemplative Life, Self

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

• The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches.

  Thomas Merton

  Desert, Today, Problem

  Thomas Merton (1966). “Raids on the Unspeakable”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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