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The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry. -- Alice McDermott
Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship. -- Elizabeth McCracken
I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things. -- Alice McDermott
Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears. -- Alice McDermott
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night. -- Pico Iyer
For prayer is the language of the heart ... -- Grace Aguilar
Daring soul has five diaries; gratitude, work, inspirational, prayer and language diaries. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help. -- Thomas Keating
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere. -- James Martineau
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you. -- J. C. Ryle
Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God. -- Katy Perry
Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations. -- Debasish Mridha
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. -- Leonard Cohen
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe). Feel as though your goal is accomplished and your prayer is already answered. -- Gregg Braden
Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life. -- Keith Miller

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