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It is putting God between one’s self and one’s grief.",6,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":23,"quote_text":24,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":9},3437262,"Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: “Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?”",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":29,"quote_text":30,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":31,"source":32,"quote_tag":33,"commentary":9},3437213,"The Christian’s God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: ’tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":35,"quote_text":36,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":37,"source":38,"quote_tag":39,"commentary":9},3437205,"He who has ceased to enjoy his friend’s superiority has ceased to love him.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":41,"quote_text":42,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":43,"source":44,"quote_tag":45,"commentary":9},3437201,"There is, by God’s grace, an immeasurable distance between late and too late.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":47,"quote_text":48,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":49,"source":50,"quote_tag":51,"commentary":9},3437185,"Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child, – a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":53,"quote_text":54,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":55,"source":56,"quote_tag":57,"commentary":9},3437163,"The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":59,"quote_text":60,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":61,"source":62,"quote_tag":63,"commentary":64},3437152,"Prayer has a right to the word “ineffable.” It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express, – of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nSophie Swetchine, a Russian philosopher and writer, penned this reflection on prayer and the ineffable in the mid-19th century. Her thoughts were shaped by the spiritual turmoil of her time, as European society grappled with the implications of Enlightenment rationalism on traditional faith. Swetchine's own experiences with spiritual doubt and searching likely informed her meditations on the limits of language.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nSwetchine's quote reveals a paradox at the heart of prayer: it is both an attempt to express the inexpressible and a surrender of language's limitations. By acknowledging the ineffability of prayer, she highlights the tension between the desire to articulate the divine and the recognition that words can never fully capture the essence of the experience.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset to your own creative or professional pursuits, consider embracing the \"ineffable\" moments that arise when language falters. Instead of forcing a perfect articulation, allow yourself to dwell in the uncertainty, trusting that the unspoken aspects of your experience will continue to shape and inform your work.",{"id":66,"quote_text":67,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":68,"source":69,"quote_tag":70,"commentary":9},3437141,"Poor humanity! – so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":72,"quote_text":73,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":74,"source":75,"quote_tag":76,"commentary":9},3437130,"Miracles are God’s coups d’etat.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":78,"totalPages":79,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":80},1,15,10]