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Author QuotedFriedrich Heiler
Title QuotedPrayer: A Study in the History and Psychology of Religion
Date (Year/Month/Day)1968/07/01
Imprint[S.l.] : Oxford University Press. 1932I
QuotationVery hot. One of the hottest days I can remember here. Clammy and stuffy"”but with a breez"”even though hot"”in the woods. I spent part of the afternoon there, beginning Heiler's book on Prayer, which I find very moving and true. This is a good time to read it, as I hope to make July at least relatively a time of retreat, silence and prayer
Quotation SourceThe Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 7, 1967-1968.; Edited by Patrick Hart, O.C.S.O. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1998, p. 136
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