Thomas Merton
Today’s “Big Amen of the Day to That!” . . . is from my main man the mystic Mr. Merton, whose social criticism needs to be considered today as much as it needed to be heard when he wrote this in his journal on July 3, 1968:
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“One has to remain pretty critical and independent about all ideas. Come to one’s own conclusions on a basis of one’s own frank experience. Both the conservatives and the progressives seem to me to be full of the same kind of intolerance, arrogance, empty-headedness, and to be dominated by different guides of conformism: in either case the dread of being left out of their reference group.”
“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things…as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.” ― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (HAT TIP: Peggy at Ecumenicus.org)
What we need most in order to make progress is to be silent before this great God with our appetite and with our tongue, for the language he best hears is silent love.
(St John of the Cross)
“The glory of God is the human person fully alive.”
— St Irenaeus
Your scripture for the day, especially for those who think they’ve done too much evil in life to be forgiven by the God of endless love, endless grace and tender mercies:
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“If you, O Lord, kept a record of our sins,
“Who, O Lord, could stand?”
— Psalm 130: 3
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