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We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!

We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!
– Thomas Merton

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