Thomas Merton Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish. Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature

  Thomas Merton

  Love Is, Perfection, Our Love

  Thomas Merton (1960). “Spiritual Direction and Meditation”, p.85, Liturgical Press

• Humility is a virtue, not a neurosis.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Religious, Humility

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.73, Macmillan

• The friends of Job appear on the scene as advisers and "consolers," offering Job the fruits of their moral scientia. But when Job insists that his sufferings have no explanation and that he cannot discover the reason for them through conventional ethical concepts, his friends turn into accusers, and curse Job as a sinner. Thus, instead of consolers, they become torturers by virtue of their very morality, and in so doing, while claiming to be advocates of God, they act as instruments of the devil.

  Thomas Merton

  Jobs, Offering, Suffering

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