“But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God’s love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in the endless, unfailing mercy of God.”
—No Man Is an Island (New York: Houghton Mifflin 2002 paper ed. of 1953 original), p.202
Also died #OnThisDay in 1968 – Thomas Merton, Contemplative and Writer https://t.co/jcyCsj9h8m pic.twitter.com/0tQoWyPlGG
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