Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
‘Unless you become a little child.’ I am sure you will understand beautifully everything if you would only “become” a little child in God’s hands. Your longing for God is so deep, and yet He keeps Himself away from you. He must be forcing Himself to do so, because He loves you so much – as to give Jesus to die for you and for me. Christ is longing to be your Food. Surrounded with fullness of living Food, you allow yourself to starve. The personal love Christ has for you is infinite; the small difficulty you have regarding His Church is finite. Overcome the finite with the infinite. Christ has created you because He wanted you. I know what you feel – terrible longing with dark emptiness. And yet, He is the one in love with you.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
The biggest disease in North America is busyness.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Abandonment (of self), Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
If we can, by God’s grace, turn ourselves entirely to Him, and put aside everything else in order to speak with Him and worship Him, this does not mean that we can always imagine Him or feel His presence.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Discipleship, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Sainthood, Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
“What do you want to want to be, anyway?” “I don’t know; I guess what I want to be is a good Catholic.” “What you should say,” –he told me– “what you should say is that you want to be a saint.”
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
Creation, Page: Quotes, Quote Author, Quote Topic, Spiritual (life), Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature.
–Thomas Merton (1915-1968)
