Thomas Merton Quotes

All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

Man makes holy what he believes.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

I'm a spiritual person: I believe that if you read the Bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read it, you see the beauty, spirituality, the joy and love, and what makes us godly.

As any Christian would understand, I feel church is sacred. For me, it is the place I worship, where I learn about God and feel closest to Him each week.

We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.

The Lord always comes first in our lives, and then everything else comes second. And so with my music and with my platform, I have places to talk about the Lord and His goodness.

I respect religious rules. I am a true God-fearing Hindu.

The Bible is full of wealth, miracles, goodness and badness.

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell!

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.

Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

He had never thought of himself as much of a praying man, but as he sat in the car in the growing darkness and the minutes passed, he knew what it was to pray. It was to will goodness out of evil, hope out of despair, life out of death. It was to will dreams into existence and spectres into reality. It was to will an end to anguish and a beginning to joy.

With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.