Description
"We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."
"There is a distinction between a contrite sense of sin and a feeling of guilt. The former is a true and healthy thing, the latter tends to be false and pathological."
"The man who suffers from a sense of guilt does not want to feel guilty, but at the same time he does not want to be innocent. He wants to do what he thinks he must not do, without the pain of worrying about the consequences."
"The history of our time has been made by dictators whose characters, often transparently easy to read, have been full of repressed guilt. They have managed to enlist the support of masses of men moved by the same repressed drives as themselves."
"Modern dictatorships display everywhere a deliberate and calculated hatred for human nature as such. The technique of degradation used in concentration camps and in staged trials are all too familiar in our time. They have one purpose: to defile the human person."
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/19/1980
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.50w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9780374515201
ISBN10: 0374515204
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Living | Inspirational
- Religion | Christianity | General
- Religion | Christianity | Catholic
About the Author
Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, is perhaps the foremost spiritual of the twentieth century. His diaries, social commentary, and spiritual writings continue to be widely read thirty years after his untimely death in 1968.
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