"Words are but the body, the argument, the outside of prayer; sighs are nearer the heart work. A dumb beggar gets an alm at Christ's gates, even by making signs, when his tongue cannot plead for him; and the rather, because he is dumb... Tears have a tongue, and grammar, and language, that our Father knows. Babes have no prayer for the breast, but weeping: the mother can read hunger in weeping."
- Samuel Rutherford (1600?-1661)
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That's really comforting to remember...
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