To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect …

Thomas Merton
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To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish. ✨ Thomas Merton (2003). New Seeds of Contemplation, p.148, Shambhala Publications
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