Thomas Merton

The Animal Eloquence of Night

Author: Thomas Merton
Book: The Sign of Jonas, Page #350

"The world of this night resounds from heaven to hell with animal eloquence, with the savage innocence of a million unknown creatures. While the earth eases and cools off like a huge wet living thing, the enormous vitality of their music pounds and rings and throbs and echoes until it gets into everything, and swamps the whole world in its neutral madness which never becomes an orgy because all things are innocent, all things are pure.

Men Do Not Want Peace

Author: Thomas Merton
Book: The Root of Fear is War

If men really wanted peace they would sincerely ask God for it and He would give it to them. But why should He give the world a peace which it does not really desire? The peace the world pretends to desire is really no peace at all.

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