Quotes about Truth
What we have to be is what we are.
— Thomas Merton
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)
— Thomas Merton
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear.
— Thomas Merton
For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.
— Thomas Merton
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
— Thomas Merton
There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.
— Thomas Merton
For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness
— Thomas Merton
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which we have no practical knowledge at all.
— Thomas Merton
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
The religious answer is not really religious if it's not fully real. Evasion is the answer of superstition.
— Thomas Merton
We discover our true selves in love.
— Thomas Merton
We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real … and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists.
— Thomas Merton