title: Life and Holiness (Image Classics)
author:  Thomas Merton 
description: In this brief and readily accessible work, Merton offers his thoughts on what it means to be holy in the face of the anxieties of the modern world.
zlib_text: LIFE AND HOLINESS 
  
  THOMAS MERTON 
  LIFE AND HOLINESS 
  HERDER AND HERDER 
  
  1963 
  HERDER AND HERDER 
  NEW YORK 
  232 Madison Avenue, New York 16, N.Y. 
  lmprimi potest: Fr. M. Gabriel Sortais 
  Nihil obstat: Rev. George W. Rohling, Censor Librorum 
  Imprimatur: Most Reverend William L. Adrian, DD. 
  Bishop of Nashville 
  November 29, 1962 
  The nihil obstat and imprimatur are official declarations that a 
  book or pamphlet is free from doctrinal or moral error. No impli­
  cation is contained therein that those who have granted the nihil 
  obstat and imprimatur agree with the content, opinions, or state­
  ments expressed. 
  Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-10691 
  © 1963 by the Abbey of Gethsemani, Incorporated 
  Printed in the United States of America 
  
  IN MEMORIAM: Loms MAssIGNON 1883-1962. 
  
  INTRODUCTION 
  This is intended to be a very simple book, an ele­
  mentary treatment of a few basic ideas in Christian 
  spirituality. Hence it should be useful to any Chris­
  tian, and indeed to anyone wh