Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain

Quotes

• “I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and cleare...”
• “Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full...”
• “The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opini...”