# Thomas Merton

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- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-merton

## Books

- [Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander](https://www.leafyquotes.com/thomas-merton/conjectures-of-a-guilty-bystander.md) — 1 quote

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> It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race, though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes: yet, with all that, God Himself gloried in becoming a member of the human race. A member of the human race! To think that such a commonplace realization should suddenly seem like news that one holds the winning ticket in a cosmic sweepstake.

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