Difference between a vocation and a category. Those who fulfill their vocation to sanctity – or who are fulfilling it – are by that very fact unaccountable. They do not fit into categories. If you use a category in speaking of them you have to qualify statement at once, as if they also belonged to some completely different category. In actual fact, they are in no category, they are particular themselves...
-Thomas Merton
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