"One of the monks, called Serapion, sold his book of the Gospels and gave the money to those who were hungry,
saying:
I have sold the book that told me to sell all that I had and give it to the poor."
-Thomas Merton
The Wisdom of the Desert, XXXIV
New York: New Directions, 1970, p. 37
copyright Abbey of Gethsemane 1960
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