| Author Quoted | William Du Bay |
| Title Quoted | Human Church |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/05/14 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1966 |
| Quotation | Thanks for your book which, it seems to me, does not need to be safely publishable, only to be used. It can be used in its present state, or in some other such form, can't it? After it has been used a while and after adjustments have been made, maybe someone will publish it. Naturally with the liberty you have displayed you will meet opposition and publication might mean giving up something somewhere. That is normal. We have to be content with humanity as it is, even though we recognize that we must be helping to change things. We change by pressing on what is there. |
| Quotation Source | The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 167 |
| Letter to | William Du Bay |
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