Quote of the Day (Thomas Merton, on the ‘Conversion of the Deep Will to God’)

“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)