This quote comes from Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain. This comes from the part of the book where Merton is sick, has gangrene, and is practically on the edge of death...he is at the point where he does not care whether he dies or lives.
"What is more, there was nothing I could do for myself. There was absolutely no means, no natural means within reach, for getting out of that state. Only God could help me. Who prayed for me? One day I shall know. But in the economy of God's love, it is through prayers of other men that these graces are given. It was through the prayers of someone who loved God that I was one day, to be delivered out of that hell where I was already confined without knowing it." (Harcourt Publishers edition p. 109)
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