Thomas Merton Quotes

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.

God is love.

There is no sin but the lack of love.

Jesus weeps and loves me still.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.

Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.

The people who are teaching religion and not teaching love are missing the message.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

God is love, and love is love.

First of all, I am a man of God, and God is love. My expressions are always going to be about love.

You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.

Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness but into the safe embrace of a God whose love will heal all your wounds.

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil.