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 in amazement at the tremendous, inexplicable goodness of God to men.
-- Thomas Merton, Praying the Psalms
