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“The sinful self is not my real self, it is not the self You have wanted for me, only the self that I have wanted for myself. And I no longer want this false self. But now Father, I come to You in your own Son’s self . . . and it is He Who presents me to You.”
Categorized In Sin
Thoughts in Solitude
Merton, Thomas | Shambhala Publications, 1958