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“What do you want to be anyway [asked Lax]?”

“I don’t know; I guess what I want to be is to be a good Catholic.”

Lax replied, “What do you mean you want to be a good Catholic? What you should say is that you want to be a saint.”

“How do you expect me to become a saint…I can’t be a saint. I can’t be a saint.”

Then Lax said, “all that is necessary to be a saint is to want to be one. Don’t you believe that God will make you what he created you to be if you consent to let Him do it? All you have to do is desire it.”

Thomas Merton

(The Seven Story Mountain, NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1948, 1978 (New American Library, 1961), pp.237-38