English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Thomas Merton Quotes

The wise man has struggled to find You in his wisdom, and he has failed. The just man has striven to grasp You in his own justice, and he has gone astray. But the sinner, suddenly struck by the lightning of mercy that ought to have been justice, falls down in adoration of Your holiness: for he had seen what kings desired to see and never saw, what prophets foretold and never gazed upon, what the men of ancient times grew weary of expecting when they died. He has seen that Your love is so infinitely good that it cannot be the object of a human bargain.

Thomas Merton

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Napolean Hill quote: "Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children..."
Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napolean Hill
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river. Mitch Albom
Zora Neale Hurston quote: "No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep."
No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. Zora Neale Hurston
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly. Max Lucado
In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tiebreaking vote when you just can't decide what you should do next. Stephen King
Robert Graves quote: "What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual..."
What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love. Robert Graves
Jonathan Ive quote: "I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do..."
I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design. Jonathan Ive
I wish grace and healing were more abracadabra kind of things. Also, that delicate silver bells would ring to announce grace's arrival. But no, it's clog and slog and scootch, on the floor, in the silence, in the dark. Anne Lamott
A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fanciesthat have moulded them Jawaharlal Nehru
Bill Gates quote: "Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they..."
Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose. Bill Gates
Arise now, arise, Riders of Thoden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas! J. R. R. Tolkien
And in that very moment, away behind in some far corner of the city, a cock crowed. Shrill and clear he crowed reckoning nothing of wizardry or war, welcoming only the morning that in the sky far above the shadows of death was coming with the dawn. J. R. R. Tolkien
Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein! If thou wert yet alive and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction. But it was not so; thou didst seek my extinction, that I might not cause greater wretchedness; and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hadst not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than that which... Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Courtney Thorne Smith quote: "It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this..."
It's incredibly difficult to keep a healthy body image in this business. Courtney Thorne Smith
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quote: "How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been..."
How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? Francois de La Rochefoucauld