There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light,…

Thomas Merton
439 citations
There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, natura naturans. There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.
Philosophy
31

More Author Quotes

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet … ▶
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of … ▶
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless. ✨ Thomas Merton (1962). Seeds of contemplation
Our destiny is to live out what we think, because unless we live what we know, we do not even know it. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.31, Macmillan

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes