For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have w…

Thomas Merton
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For the sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self YOU have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted : And I no longer want this false self. But now, Father, I come to You in your own Son's self ... and it is He Who Presents me to You. ✨ Thomas Merton (2011). Thoughts In Solitude, p.82, Macmillan
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