The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and st…

Thomas Merton
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The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.42, Shambhala Publications
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