“There is a conversion of the deep will to God that
cannot be effected in words – barely in a gesture or ceremony. There is a
conversion of the deep will and a gift of my substance that is too mysterious
for liturgy, and too private.”— American Trappist monk, theologian, and
memoirist Thomas Merton (1915-1968), journal entry for Dec. 22, 1949, in The Sign of Jonas: The Journal of Thomas Merton (1953)
