Quotes by Merton, Thomas

Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inor >>

I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform >>

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your >>

Quotations about Spirit and Spirituality

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At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will.

Merton, Thomas