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“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
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“Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.”
― The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns
― The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns
“As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down you cannot see something that is above you.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole”
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“Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.”
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Scott’s 2025 Year in Books
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