“God has ordered life so that we might learn to bear with one another’s burdens, for there is no one without fault, no one without cares, no one sufficient or wise enough alone. Therefore we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise one another, for the measure of a person’s virtue is best revealed in their time of adversity— adversity that does not weaken them but rather show what they are.”
Thomas à Kempis
“Those who are at present so eager to be reconciled with the world at any price must take care not to be reconciled with it under this particular aspect: as the nest of The Unspeakable. This is what too few are willing to see… Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.”
Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable
