Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is …

Thomas Merton
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Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption rots. He who loves a shadow becomes, himself, a shadow. He who loves things that must perish lives in dread of their perishing. ✨ Thomas Merton (2002). No Man Is an Island, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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