Status Updates From No Man Is an Island

“The silence of the sky remains when the plane has gone.” This book spoke so thoroughly to me. I underlined more than I left as it was. If someone were to ask me what single Merton book I would recommend, it is this one (though I have a huge stack to get to so this statement might change!)

“As a man is, so he prays. We make ourselves what we are by the way we address God. The man who never prays is one who has tried to run away from himself because he has run away from God. But unreal though he be, he is more real than the man who prays to God with a false and lying heart.”