People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger th…

Thomas Merton
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People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds ✨ Thomas Merton (2009). Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.72, Image
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Lovely morning! How lovely life can be! ✨ Thomas Merton (2010). The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey, p.34, Harper Collins

People have no idea what one saint can do: for sanctity is stronger than the whole of hell. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). The Seven Storey Mountain, p.281, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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