Thomas Merton Temptation Quotations

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.