God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably. . . . We must find him in our … - Thomas Merton

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As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

Thomas Merton

God must be allowed the right to speak unpredictably. . . . We must find him in our enemy, or we may lose him even in our friend. We must find him in the pagan or we will lose him in our own selves, substituting for his living presence an empty abstraction.

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