• Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.

    Thomas Merton: Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.
    Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt