Thomas Merton

The whole problem of our time is the problem of love. How are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another?
-Thomas Merton

Modern dictatorships display everywhere a deliberate and calculated hatred for human nature as such. The technique of degradation used in concentration camps and in staged trials are all too familiar in our time. They have one purpose: to defile the human person.
-Thomas Merton, The Living Bread

Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
-Thomas Merton.