Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and r…

Thomas Merton
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Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.46, Macmillan
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Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.46, Macmillan

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