![]() ![]() His parents were both artists, one American and one from New Zealand, though he had also lived in the United Kingdom for a time. While Merton is remembered for his books written in America in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s, he was born in France in 1915. That world was the picture of Hell, full of men like myself, loving God and yet hating Him born to love Him, living instead in fear and hopeless self-contradictory hungers.” Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain “Free by nature, in the image of God, I was nevertheless the prisoner of my own violence and my own selfishness, in the image of the world into which I was born. ![]() Google Books calls The Seven Storey Mountain, “a modern-day Confessions of Saint Augustine.” A glance at the book and some of the famous and not-so-famous Thomas Merton quotes that it contains helps us understand that the book is a wonder in its own right as well as a guide to Merton’s other works. Named after the Italian Poet Dante’s description of Purgatory in “The Divine Comedy,” the book follows Merton on his search for spirituality and peace that led him to a Trappist Monastery. He’s remembered for his reflections and poetry but one of his most impactful works is his 1948 autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain. ![]() ![]() Thomas Merton was one of the great Catholic writers of the twentieth century. ![]()
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