Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which i…

Thomas Merton
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Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ. ✨ John C. H. Wu, Jingxiong Wu, Thomas Merton, Kenneth Kraft (2003). The Golden Age of Zen: Zen Masters of the T'Ang Dynasty, p.21, World Wisdom, Inc
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