Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into …

Thomas Merton
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Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. ✨ Thomas Merton (2003). The New Man, p.29, Bloomsbury Publishing
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Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. ✨ Thomas Merton (2003). The New Man, p.29, Bloomsbury Publishing

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