The Only Possible Reaction

If we have no real interest in praising him, it shows that we have never realized who he is. For when one becomes conscious of who God really is, and when one realizes that he who is almighty, and infinitely holy, has "done great things to us," the only possible reaction is the cry of half-articulate exultation that bursts from the depths of our being on amazement at the tremendous, inexplicable goodness of God to men.

-Thomas Merton, Praying the Psalms