Thomas Merton Quotes

I don't think you can hate anything that you know intimately. There is no fine line separating love from hate because there's a deep chasm separating love from hate.

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

You have to give love to get love.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

Love is supreme and unconditional; like is nice but limited.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

Love is something in the heart and in the mind, so why would you chastise anyone for that? And this is something that I feel very strongly about.

Love is love. Let's take it any way we can get it.

We should never close our doors on love.

The key to coaching is love. It's not knowledge; it's not discipline. If you love 'em, you can discipline them. If you love 'em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.

Works of love are always to accept and respect others.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

We pardon as long as we love.

Love breeds tolerance, tolerance breeds peace. ... Love cannot be indifferent. It does not know how.

A world without love would be no world.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.