"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
"The profoundest truths are paradoxical."
Lao Tzu
Merton Quotations
Merton Quotations
Belligerent Christians
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/thomas-merton-belligerent-christians.html
The Blinding Besottedness of Consumerism
The Blinding Besottedness of Consumerism
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/thomas-merton-blinding-besottedness-of.html
Only Love Without Judgment Makes Us Worthy
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/12/thomas-merton-only-love-without.htmlTelling the poor what’s good for them
The Breakdown of America
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/merton-addresses-breakdown-of-america.html
Thomas Merton: Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/thomas-merton-adolf-eichmann-sanity-and.html
The Sane Are More Dangerous Than The Insane
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/merton-addresses-breakdown-of-america.html
Thomas Merton: Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/thomas-merton-adolf-eichmann-sanity-and.html
The Sane Are More Dangerous Than The Insane
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