FastSaying

Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.

Thomas Merton

Related Quotes

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.
— Thomas Merton
godgod-s-absencegod-s-presence
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.
— Rick Bragg
compassiondignitypoverty
Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.
— Thomas Gray
Poverty
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful
— Thomas Robert Malthus
Poverty
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
— Thomas Merton
AttentiveBeingCourage