Quote: The Life You Save Might Be Your Own

Thomas Merton, quoted in The Life You Save May Be Your Own by Paul Elie:

I am coming to think that God (may He be praised in His great mystery) loves and helps best those who are so beat and have so much nothing when they come to die that it is almost as if they had persevered in nothing but had gradually lost everything, piece by piece, until there was nothing left but God.