Go forward with joyful confidence.
George EliotRead
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote highlights the transformative power of prayer as a means to transcend personal limitations and connect with the divine.
George Eliot's quote suggests that the essence of powerful prayer lies not in petitioning for specific desires, but in a deep yearning to rise above our inherent weaknesses. It underscores the idea that true spiritual connection comes from an openness to let goodness and higher forces enter our lives, thus fostering personal growth and enlightenment.
Themes
PrayerSpiritualityYearningGoodnessTranscendence
In practice
Example use cases
In a meditation workshop, you can use this quote to encourage participants to focus on the intention behind their meditation.
More from George Eliot
All quotes →You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.
George EliotRead
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel – that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth.
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Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George EliotRead
Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.
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