Thomas Merton Quotes

People are made up of flaws.

I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.

We all have shortcomings.

We all have faults.

If we were good at everything we would have no need for each other.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

I believe we all grow because we share our experiences and our problems. We all have our intimate times. Why not share them?

There are always holes in anyone's game.

No, I'm not perfect in any way.

There's weaknesses in every fighter.

Everyone has technical flaws - no matter how many runs you score.

We all have weaknesses.

One cannot attend to oneself, take care of oneself, without a relationship to another person.

I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what I can, but no more than that. Just as I cannot breathe the breath of another or help the heart of someone else to beat or their bones not to weaken or their flesh not to shrivel, I cannot say more than I can say. And I know how deeply this disturbs them, and it would make me smile, this earnest need for foolish anecdote or sharp simple patterns in the story of what happened to us all, except that I have forgotten how to smile.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

We need to play each others instruments.

I think we're here for each other.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

Next to grace, I bet God thinks making us need each other was one of His best ideas.

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

We live in community, and we're created in community. We're created out of the unity of two people, and then we're made into a family. It's just inherent in who we are.

When you connect with people, they want to help you.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.

People help you or you help them and when we offer or receive help, we take in each other. And then we are saved.

The thing we need most is each other.