| Author Quoted | Louis Massignon |
| Title Quoted | Opera Minora |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1964/11/17 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1963 |
| Quotation | Massignon and Foucauld"”both converted to Christianity by the witness of Islam to the one living God. Someone wrote of Foucauld (and his devotion to the dead of Islam): "Mais pour un mystique les ames des morts comptent autant que celles des vivants; et sa vocation particulière etait de sanctifier l'Islam eternel (car ce qui a ete est pour l'eternite) en lui faisant donner un saint au Christianism" ["For a mystic the souls of the dead count as much as those of the living; and his particular vocation was to sanctify the eternal Islam-for that which has been is forever-in helping it to give a saint to Christianity"] (quoted by Massignon, Opera Minora, III, p. 775). "L'ascèse n'est pas un luxe solitaire nous parant pour Dieu mais la plus profonde oeuvre de misericorde: celle, qui guerit les coeurs brises par sa propre brisure et blessur" ["Asceticism is not a solitary luxury preparing us for God but the most profound act of mercy: that which heals broken hearts by its own breaks and wounds"] Massignon, Opera Minora, III, 804. |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 166-67 |
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