Thomas Merton
  • Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

  • Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

  • Perhaps I am stronger than I think.

  • Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

  • We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.