Thomas Merton Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• There are crimes which no one would commit as an individual which he willingly and bravely commits when acting in the name of his society, because he has been (too easily) convinced that evil is entirely different when it is done 'for the common good.'...one might point to the way in which racial hatreds and even persecution are admitted by people who consider themselves, and perhaps in some sense are, kind, tolerant, civilized and even humane.

  Thomas Merton

  Names, People, Evil

• The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer pilgrimage. One can have one without the other. It is best to have both.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Journey, Acting

  Thomas Merton (1999). “Mystics and Zen Masters”, p.92, Macmillan

• None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God — acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Prayer, Pride

  "The seven storey mountain".

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