id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005456907 Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968. Basic principles of monastic spirituality 1957 .txt text/plain 14688 652 73 Here then is our situation — without Christ, we are entirely cut off from God, we have no access to Him, except in rites of natural religion which cannot save our souls of themselves (but we know that by the merits of the Passion of Christ God will give His grace to everyone who does what he can to live according to the light of his conscience). And every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.” cache/_005456907.txt txt/_005456907.txt