I am the living bread that has come down from heaven. If anyone eat of this bread, he shall live forever. - John 6:51-52.
From Thomas Merton, American Trappist Monk, mystic and theologian, meditations on Christianity and Christ's life with regard to the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist.
Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, is perhaps the foremost spiritual of the twentieth century. His diaries, social commentary, and spiritual writings continue to be widely read thirty years after his untimely death in 1968.