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Thomas Merton Quotes about Love

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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

Thomas Merton (1976). “The Power and Meaning of Love”

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

Love, Life, Wisdom

Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love, Valentines Day, Fate

Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.32, Macmillan

Love in fact is the spiritual life, and without it all the other exercises of the spirit, however lofty, are emptied of content and become mere illusions.

Love, Spiritual, Exercise

"The Wisdom of the Desert".

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

Love, Valentines Day, Care

Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

Love, Wisdom, Jesus

Love is the door to eternity.

Love, Love Is, Doors

Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

Love, Selfish, Loving Others

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

Love, Wisdom, Prayer

"New Seeds of Contemplation".

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

Love, Book, Evil

Thomas Merton (2002). “The Sign of Jonas”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Love, Inspirational, Family

"No Man is an Island".

If you have love you will do all things well.

Love, Inspirational, Wells

Love is...like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached.

Love, Spring, Price Tag

Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.

Love, Perfect, Emotion

Thomas Merton (1998). “Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected”, p.26, University of Notre Dame Pess

In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate.

Love, Spiritual, Hate

Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.47, Macmillan

O love-why can't you leave me alone? Which is a rhetorical question meaning: for heaven's sake, don't.

Love, Heaven, Leave Me Alone

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