I wish I could write better out of respect for God, who gave me these small and very usual and familiar and unstartling and generous graces…
But if I am humble I will write better just by being humble. By being humble, I will write what is true, simply – and the simple truth is never rubbish and never scandalous – except to people in peculiar perplexities of pride themselves…
May I write simply and straight anything I ever have to write, that no dishonour come to God through my writing about Him.
Thomas Merton, quoted in Michael Mott, The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton (London: Sheldon, 1986), 191
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