The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of …

Thomas Merton
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The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.212, Shambhala Publications
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The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God. ✨ Thomas Merton (2005). No Man is an Island, p.212, Shambhala Publications

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