Thomas Merton Quotes

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

I believe in evolution. But I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I don't know. But it's natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

As I'd go out learning to surf, I'd feel the power of waves coming over my body. It's like you're with God.

Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of the soul; where this is not kept in mind there is no true music, but only an infernal clamour and ranting.

The groves were God's first temples.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.

Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.