God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be …

Thomas Merton
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God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.250, Shambhala Publications
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