Thomas Merton Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.

  Thomas Merton

  Keys, Finals, Answers

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.130, New Directions Publishing

• I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Body, Fancy

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

• To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Silence, Unity

  Thomas Merton (2009). “A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960”, p.47, Harper Collins

• The truth never becomes clear as long as we assume that each one of us, individually, is the center of the universe.

  Thomas Merton

  Long, Assuming, Clear

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

• Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything, or you look at your own life and your own part in the universe as infinitely rich, full of inexhaustible interest, opening out into the infinite further responsibilities for study and contemplation and interest and praise. Beyond all and in all is God.

  Thomas Merton

  Looks, Study, Infinite

  "Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation".

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