Thomas Merton Quotes about Grace

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When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.

When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.

Thomas Merton

Grace

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

Thomas Merton

Gratitude, Grace, Moments

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

Thomas Merton

Spiritual, Wisdom, Grace

Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.129, Macmillan

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.

Thomas Merton

Spiritual, Oneness, Grace

Thomas Merton (2003). “The New Man”, p.29, Bloomsbury Publishing

Thinking prevents the unconscious from speaking.

Thomas Merton

Thinking, Grace, Unconscious

O God, teach me to be satisfied with my own helplessness in the spiritual life. Teach me to be content with Your grace that comes to me in darkness and that works things I cannot see. Teach me to be happy that I can depend on You. To depend on You should be enough for an eternity of joy. To depend on You by itself ought to be infinitely greater than any joy which my own intellectual appetite could desire.

Thomas Merton

Spiritual, Joy, Grace

The peculiar grace of a Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by someone capable of believing that an angel might come and sit on it.

Thomas Merton

Believe, Angel, Grace

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

Thomas Merton

Spiritual, Clever, Grace

Thomas Merton (2009). “Contemplative Prayer”, p.70, Image

This is the crucifixion of Christ: in which He dies again and again in the individuals who were made to share the joy and freedom of His grace, and who deny Him.

Thomas Merton

Crucifixion Of Christ, Joy, Grace

Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, / While each new instant, (new eternity) / Flowering with clean and individual circumstance, / Speaks me the whisper of [God's] consecrating Spirit. / Then will obedience bring forth new Incarnations / Shining to God with the features of [the Lord's] Christ.

Thomas Merton

Spring, Shining, Grace

May we all grow in grace and peace and not neglect the silence that is printed in the center of our being. It will not fail us.

Thomas Merton

Silence, Grace, May

Thomas Merton (2011). “The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters”, p.179, Macmillan

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

Thomas Merton

Spiritual, Wisdom, Grace

Thomas Merton Quotes about Grace

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