For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very …

Thomas Merton
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For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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