"A soul is an inmaterial thing. It is a principle of activity, it is an 'act,' a 'form,' an energizing principle. It is the life of the body, and it must also have a life of its own. But the life of the soul does not inhere in any physical, material subject. So to compare a soul without grace to a corpse without life is only a metaphor. But it is very true."
(Thomas Merton, Seven Storey Mountain, Harcourt Publishers, p.109)
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