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Thomas Merton Quotes
«An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. And he would give anything in the world to be a chicken instead of a duck.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| Keywords:
author, chicken, chicken coop, co-op, coop, duck, monasteries, monastery, Trappist
«By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| Keywords:
blue, Blue Skies, cooler, coolest, deeper, Deep Blue, glory, green, pure, renewed, scriptures
«In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude»
Author: Thomas Merton
| Keywords:
age of, crowds, determined, lament, lamenting, solitary, threshold, thresholds
«We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
artificial, excite, high-pitched, high society, human body, nerve, pitch, strain, synthetic, tension, the human body, The Limit, to the limit
«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.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
Conscience,
Fidelity,
Heroism,
Labor,
Peace,
Purity,
Sacrifice,
Truth,
War
| Keywords:
fidelities, fidelity, heroic, heroism, purity
«October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| About:
America and Americans,
Seasons
| Keywords:
catalogue, catalogued, catalogues, October
«I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| Keywords:
abounding, abounds, accusation, accuses, all-around, ancient people, Buildings, corruption, keen, pervades, protected, scent, stench, stenches, superficial, The Sweet, undergraduate, Undergraduates, youthfulness
«So Brother Matthew locked the gate behind me, and I was enclosed in the four walls of my new freedom.»