A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

More Quotes By Thomas Merton

• The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the...
• To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the...
• The question of love is one that cannot be evaded. Whether or not you claim to be interested...
• The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them...
• Our God…is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He...
• If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we...
• Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is...
• Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having...
• True happiness is found in unselfish Love, A love which increases in proportion as it is shared.
• Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects...
• Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God...
• The psychological impotence of our enraged generation must be traced to the overwhelming accusation of insincerity which every...
• The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.
• To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us – and...
• Love is the epiphany of God in our poverty.