The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. – Thomas Merton
Attachment to spiritual things is.. just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. – Thomas Merton
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. – Thomas Merton
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton
Ive always believed in God. I also think thats the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when youre in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement. – Stephen King