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Music waves eternal wands,
Enchantress of the souls of mortals! -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
A supernatural instrument before whose miracle we used to stand amazed, and which we now employ without giving it a thought, to summon our tailor or to order an ice cream -- Alain De Botton
For in the Market-place, one Dusk of Day, I watch'd the Potter thumping his wet Clay: And with its all obliterated Tongue It murmur'd - "Gently, Brother, gently, pray!" XXXVII. -- Omar Khayyam
The Rosary is THE weapon. -- Pio Of Pietrelcina
Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance! -- Euripides
I Anoint my tongue by fire. Every evil head rising up against me, I strike you down, in the name of Jesus, somersault from your body. -- Ademola Adejumo
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. -- Pope John Paul Ii
I speak the unseen into seeing and I can feel it, this steady breathing in the rhythm of grace
'give thanks (in), give thanks (out)'. -- Ann Voskamp
[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together. -- Elizabeth Hand
A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago ... tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again. -- Wes Adamson
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace. -- Thomas Watson
How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored. -- Jean Ingelow
The sacred words penetrate the heart. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow. -- E. M. Bounds
You listen to the silence
drawn on the ashes of ancient sacrifices. -- Helene Cardona
Right words, sometimes they escape me; curses nay so much. Of them I am kin. -- Luke Taylor
Much discussion of money involves a heavy overlay of priestly incantation. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem. -- Tom Robbins
O how unspeakable is this Sacrament which sets our affections ablaze with charity ... It is the fulfillment of Christ's Mystical Body. -- Thomas Aquinas
Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords. -- Bernie Siegel
That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word. -- William Kent Krueger
Sit and be still
until in the time
of no rain you hear
beneath the dry wind's
commotion in the trees
the sound of flowing
water among the rocks,
a stream unheard before,
and you are where
breathing is prayer. -- Wendell Berry
Prayer, God's glory. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Prayer is a little like that. With simplicity of heart we allow ourselves to be gathered up into the arms of the Father and let him sing his love song over us. -- Richard J. Foster
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. -- William Morris
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail. -- Thomas Aquinas
Through our chanting we merge our personal consciousness momentarily with the infinite consciousness that is our origin and our destiny. It is the drop of water finding its way back into the ocean from which it came. -- Victor Shamas
Again the word was a prayer, incense offered up to a high God through this new and unfathomable darkness -- F Scott Fitzgerald
Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love. -- J.r. Miller
And now about the cauldron sing
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in. -- William Shakespeare
I clench my teeth and push forward. My pen grinds out the first and eldest word: an Ink-borne lance of black fire, scratched into a sheet of ice.
-The Penitent God -- S.g. Night
How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone. -- Robert Aris Willmott
A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. -- Paulo Coelho
This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book. -- William Shakespeare
Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter. -- Stephen King
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. -- William Shakespeare
Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all. -- Henry Twells
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. -- Ambrose Bierce
Bless all useful objects,
the spoons made of bone,
the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
the typewriter that is my church
with an altar of keys always waiting. -- Anne Sexton
Have the gist of the spell. -- J.k. Rowling
And the Bastard grant us ... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word. -- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Prayer is the instrument of miracles. -- Marion G. Romney
The greatest method of praying is to pray the Rosary. -- Saint Francis De Sales
The Rosary is the best therapy for these distraught, unhappy, fearful, and frustrated souls, precisely because it involves the simultaneous use of three powers: the physical, the vocal, and the spiritual, and in that order. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise. -- Charles Spurgeon
Each part
of speech a spark
awaiting redemption, each
a virtue, a power
in abeyance ... -- Denise Levertov
The soft chanting envelops us like a membrane. A -- Margaret Atwood
'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. -- William Wordsworth
For those who use their intelligence and their study as a weapon, the Rosary is most effective. Because that apparently monotonous way of beseeching Our Lady as children do their Mother, can destroy every seed of vainglory and pride. -- Josemaria Escriva
Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer. -- Stephanie Mills
Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief. -- Hippocrates
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. -- Pope Paul Vi
Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace. -- Richard J. Foster
Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer -- Sarah Kay
Now this may sting a little. Of course, I have never used this spell, so I am not entirely sure. -- Brittany Comeaux
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. -- Theodor Adorno
Spell is a structured words that creates miracles in mind. -- Toba Beta
Mantras are passwords that transform the mundane into the sacred. -- Deva Premal
You sit beside the sorcerer, your love, and unzip your ribs. Tucked under your heart is a small oak box, plain and unvarnished. You offer it to the sorcerer. 'I brought this for you. -- A. Merc Rustad
Writing is one way to achieve enchantment. -- Guy Kawasaki
The Incarnate Word has been spoken. It calls the soul back to its place of peace that cannot be disturbed and love that will never be disappointed. -- Augustine Of Hippo
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care;
They pursued it with forks and hope;
They threatened its life with a railway-share;
They charmed it with smiles and soap. -- Lewis Carroll
Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph. -- Paul Valery
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell. -- John Adams
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth. -- Pope John Paul Ii
The endless repetition of an ordinary miracle. -- Orhan Pamuk
How vainly men themselves amaze To win the palm, the oak, or bays; And their uncessant labours see Crown'd from some single herb or tree. Whose short and narrow verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all flow'rs and all trees do close To weave the garlands of repose. -- Andrew Marvell
Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows, is the -- James Allen
Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength. -- Alexis Carrel
How are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words ... -- John Geddes
A sore pain troubles me day and night, and I cannot sleep; I long for the meeting with my Beloved, and my father's house gives me pleasure no more. The gates of the sky are opened, the temple is revealed: I meet my husband, and leave at His feet the offering of my body and my mind. -- Kabir
Together, the unlikeliest of penitents, silently, grafting words to air, they sent their prayers into the room. -- Anthony Doerr
Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world. -- Leo Tolstoy
Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry, and give back. It must be held out empty - for the past must only be reflected in its polish, its shape, its capacity. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The holy Rosary is a powerful weapon. Use it with confidence and you'll be amazed at the results. -- Josemaria Escriva
A flash of harmless lightning,
A mist of rainbow dyes.
The burnished sunbeams brightening
From flower to flower he flies;
While wakes the nodding blossom
But just too late to see
What lip hath touched her bosom
And drained her rosary. -- John B. Tabb
Ink to parchment, words to paper, glory to Beatrice. -- Dante Alighieri
O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men? -- William Shakespeare
Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,
and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.
'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,
covering myself in the earth's brightnesses,
and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,
and prayed like an orphan. -- Wendell Berry
Aethe, near my heart.
Without vanity, the ribbon.
Without duty, the wind.
Without blood, the victory. -- Patrick Rothfuss
To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir ... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners. -- Sukarno
Sometimes it is given to us. One moment of clarity. One word laid down, cold and clattering, beside another. Ribbon of wet stone. -- John Gilmore
Double, double toil and trouble," he chanted under his breath. "Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, in the caldron boil and bake. Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog ... " He couldn't recall what came next and abandoned the -- Diana Gabaldon
Lying under this spell you cast on me Each moment The more I love you. -- Dave Matthews
Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.
("The Undying Thing") -- Barry Pain
The preparation for the ritual is the ritual. -- Kate Green
O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs. -- Jean Toomer
Salvation, O the joyful sound!
'Tis pleasure to our ears;
A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound,
A cordial for our fears. -- Isaac Watts
Purification and redemption are such recurrent themes in ritual because there is a clear and ubiquitous need for them: we all do regrettable things as a result of our own circumstances, and new rituals are frequently invented in response to new circumstances. -- Susan Cain
I don't think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way. -- Christopher Hitchens
First, the thoughts are chosen,
then the prayers are spoken.
The candles are lit,
then the plea is submitted.
But soon after you move away,
there is wax;
melting, adulterating and braiding-
a new constellation up on your blanks. -- Jasleen Kaur Gumber
The inward sighs of humble penitence
Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns
Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air. -- Joanna Baillie
What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled ... some imprecision clarified, some name Named ... and some change managed. -- Gregory Maguire
Prayer illuminate the path. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Stillness is the altar of spirit. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts. -- Khalil Gibran
Love in all its incantations, promises made with flesh and bone and word and intent. -- Kim Holden
Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life. -- Gretel Ehrlich
Make me, o lord, thy spinning wheel complete, thy holy word thy distaff make for me. -- Edward Taylor
