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Quotes from New Seeds of Contemplation — Thomas Merton

1915–1968 United States

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A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying God. It “consents,” so to speak, to God's creative love. It is expressing an idea which is in God and which is not distinct from the essence of God, and therefore a tree imitates God by being a tree.

New Seeds of Contemplation (1972)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Merton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.