„Religious men are and must be heretics now — for we must not pray, except in a “form” of words, made beforehand — or think of God but with a prearranged idea.“

— Florence Nightingale

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„Prayer must lead us beyond mind, words, and ideas to a more spacious place where God has a chance to get in.“
— Richard Rohr
„Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's just fine.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me — and I think for all of us — not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream. I think the life which we have fashioned in America, and which has fashioned us — the forms we made, the cells that grew, the honeycomb that was created — was self-destructive in its nature, and must be destroyed. I think these forms are dying, and must die, just as I know that America and the people in it are deathless, undiscovered, and immortal, and must live.“
— Thomas Wolfe