Thomas Merton Quotes

I tell you this: The purpose of life is not to please God. The purpose of life is to know, and to recreate, Who You Are.

There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.

When I started making music, I was like, 'This is something I can believe I was meant to do.'

There are enough roles for everyone, and I truly believe that the roles that we end up doing are the exact ones that are right for us at that time as people and as actors.

Life events will not define who you are. God says who you are.

God made me to be a sports player. He didn't make me to be a professor or any of that other crap.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.

One day it's all going to be clear. It's all going to make sense. You're going to be able to say, "So that's why God allowed that in my life!" Until then, God wants you to trust him.

When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

I know that God has a plan for my life.

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be. . .It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

God comes to us disguised as our life.

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose- which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint.

God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.