Thomas Merton Quotes

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

Don't seek opportunity. Seek God and opportunity will seek you.

So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.

So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.

If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.

Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

I think God always has the best for us.

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

To pray for any thing, which we can obtain by the due application of our natural powers, and neglect the means of procuring it, is impertinence and laziness in the abstract; and to pray for that which God in the course of his providence, has put out of our power to obtain, is only murmuring against God, and finding fault with his providence, or acting the inconsiderate part of a child.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God's providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

There's a blessing in everything that happens to us.

I believe in one principle: Do your work and leave the rest to God.

I know that whatever God does is for my betterment.

The wisdom of God is so great that He also knows exactly what I would think and do under every possible circumstance and situation, and he placed me in that state of life and situation best suited for my salvation.

I guess God has His own plans for all of us. And I trust His decision. He always does what's best for me.

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you need.

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.