Thought for Friday, Nov 2, 2007

Is it any wonder that there can be no peace in the world
where everything possible is done to guarantee that the
youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral
and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an
interior life, or of that spirituality and charity and faith
which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made
by governments?

-Thomas Merton
year: 1948
book: The Seven Story
Mountain page 51
Submitted by J Cox