| Author Quoted | Julien Hartridge Green |
| Title Quoted | Journals |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1957/08/08 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1938-1946 |
| Quotation | Finally got the rest of Green's Journals. Their climate is wonderful. I am really at home in it-he is an honest mind-and dishonest too, like all of us, but simple about it. And he loves France. I am more fascinated by his days than anything I can think of. His moments of despair are important to me, because, above all, he clings in desperation to the reality of the religious life. It is most "edifying" to look at religion through his eyes-which are honest ones. For edification does not mean delusion. He sees religious as they are-with their limitations. And I have those limitations too. To what extent have they crippled me? I ask that as if there were an answer. But I will probably never know. |
| Quotation Source | A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3, 1952-1960.; Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 108 |
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