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«Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but»
Author: Frederick Buechner
(Author)
| Keywords:
bursts, crowd, fall into, floats, fourth, Fourth of July, happening, July, July 4, odd, prayers, praying, prays, rocket, rockets, sighing, Somebody else, sounds, spoken, stammer, stammering, The Rocket, The Water
«No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.»
Author: Jeremy Taylor
(Bishop, Clergyman, Writer)
| Keywords:
accents, angers, childishness, Delicious, delights, emanation, emanations, imperfections, necessities, pledges, stammer, stammering
«God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Forgiveness,
God,
Ignorance
| Keywords:
escapes, inadvertently, mercy, No Mercy, pardoning, pardons, stammer, stammering, tolerates
«From my earliest days I have enjoyed an attractive impediment in my speech. I have never permitted the use of the word ''stammer'.' I can't say it myself.»
«The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.»
«If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.»
Author: Christopher Morley
| Keywords:
booth, booths, occupied, stammer, stammering, telephone, telephone booth, telephone call
«I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.»
«For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: / For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.»
«ABDOMEN, n. The temple of the god Stomach, in whose worship, with sacrificial rights, all true men engage. From women this ancient faith commands but a stammering assent. They sometimes minister at the altar in a half-hearted and ineffective way, but true reverence for the one deity that men really adore they know not. If woman had a free hand in the world's marketing the race would become graminivorous.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abdomen, adore, altar, Ancient World, assented, assenting, commands, deity, engage, Free market, hearted, ineffective, marketing, minister, sacrificial, stammer, stammering, Temple of, The temple
«Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
Demosthenes, distinct, inarticulate, overcame, pebbles, pronunciation, rendered, stammer, stammering
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