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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