[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fUEavqHXrO-41OO3TJJBdfVC5hHUi1eDMzqzop3xYxpI":3,"$f7-9qj4mia8bYm9mePjBLgxKNwULgVnpL4OJWQU7A9Ec":20},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},20207,"John Buchan","J",101,null,"john-buchan",[12,16],{"tag_id":13,"tag_name":14,"tag_count":15},326,"men",9,{"tag_id":17,"tag_name":18,"tag_count":19},172,"adventure",5,{"quotes":21,"pagination":87},[22,31,38,45,51,57,63,69,75,81],{"id":23,"quote_text":24,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":26,"author":27,"source":28,"quote_tag":29,"commentary":30},3739774,"The best prayers have often more groans than words.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nThis quote, \"The best prayers have often more groans than words,\" is attributed to John Buchan, a Scottish novelist and politician, best known for his adventure novels, particularly the Richard Hannay series. Buchan's life was marked by periods of introspection and spiritual exploration, particularly during his time as a young man at the University of Oxford. This quote likely reflects his experiences during this period, where he grappled with the nature of faith and the human condition.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nOn the surface, this quote suggests that the most sincere and effective prayers are those that arise from deep emotional need, rather than mere verbal expression. However, the hidden insight lies in the recognition that true spiritual expression often defies language and rationality, instead emerging from the depths of our embodied experience, where words are insufficient to capture the complexity of our emotions. This tension between the desire for clear expression and the limits of language highlights the paradox that our most profound experiences often lie beyond the reach of words.\n\n**How to Use This**\nIn today's fast-paced, linguistically-driven world, this quote encourages us to approach creative and professional challenges with a sense of humility and openness to the unknown. Rather than relying solely on verbal articulation, we can tap into our own embodied experience, allowing ourselves to be guided by intuition and emotional resonance, even when words fail us.",{"id":32,"quote_text":33,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":26,"author":34,"source":35,"quote_tag":36,"commentary":37},3739773,"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nThis quote is likely from John Buchan's spiritual writings, which reflect his strong Christian faith. As a young man, Buchan was deeply influenced by the Christian mystics and the idea that prayer is a means of spiritual transformation. In his 30s, Buchan was working on his spiritual autobiography, which would eventually become \"Pilgrim's Way\".\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nBuchan's quote reveals a paradoxical truth: that prayer, which may seem like an empty act of petitioning, is actually a means of being filled by God. This insight challenges the common misconception that prayer is merely a way of asking for things, and instead suggests that it is a means of surrendering to a higher power.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset today, try approaching prayer or meditation as a means of surrendering to a higher power, rather than simply asking for things. By letting go of your ego's need for control and outcome, you may find that you are filled with a sense of purpose, clarity, and inner peace.",{"id":39,"quote_text":40,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":26,"author":42,"source":43,"quote_tag":44,"commentary":9},3147424,"Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn’t a bit of right.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":46,"quote_text":47,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":26,"author":48,"source":49,"quote_tag":50,"commentary":9},3147409,"Our ignorance of the future has been wisely ordained of Heaven. For unless man were to be like God and know everything, it is better that he should know nothing. If he knows one fact only, instead of profiting by it he will assuredly land in the soup.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":52,"quote_text":53,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":26,"author":54,"source":55,"quote_tag":56,"commentary":9},3147401,"Only by the possession of a sense of humour am I saved from insignificance.” To.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":58,"quote_text":59,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":26,"author":60,"source":61,"quote_tag":62,"commentary":9},3147382,"London is like the tropical bush – if you don’t exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":64,"quote_text":65,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":26,"author":66,"source":67,"quote_tag":68,"commentary":9},3147375,"I was not a murderer, but I had become an unholy liar, a shameless impostor, and a highwayman with a marked taste for expensive motor-cars.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":70,"quote_text":71,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":26,"author":72,"source":73,"quote_tag":74,"commentary":9},3147368,"A little thing, lasting only a second, and the odds were a thousand to one that I might have had my eyes on my cards at the time and missed it. But I didn’t, and, in a flash, the air seemed to clear. Some shadow lifted from my brain, and I was looking at the three men with full and absolute recognition.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":76,"quote_text":77,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":26,"author":78,"source":79,"quote_tag":80,"commentary":9},3147363,"It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos’, and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":82,"quote_text":83,"author_id":5,"source_id":41,"has_image":26,"author":84,"source":85,"quote_tag":86,"commentary":9},3147359,"The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":88,"totalPages":89,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":90},1,11,10]