Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist
Discours de réception de Louis Pasteur (1882)
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Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist
Discours de réception de Louis Pasteur (1882)
Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884–1969) English writer
Nathalie Sarraute L'Ère du soupçon (Paris: Gallimard, 1956) p. 119; Maria Jolas (trans.) The Age of Suspicion (New York: George Braziller, 1963) p. 112.
Criticism
Murray Walker (1923) Motorsport commentator and journalist
1993 British Grand Prix, lap 39 http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1865o1_f1-british-gp-1993-race-part-2_sport <br class="br">Commentary
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
Speech at the Conference on Foreign Debt in Latin America and the Caribbean (3 August 1985) http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/1985/esp/f030885e.html
Alessandra Martines (1963) Italian dancer and actor
Robertson Davies book A Voice from the Attic
A Voice from the Attic (1960)
Context: Prayer is petition, intercession, adoration, and contemplation; great saints and mystics have agreed on this definition. To stop short at petition is to pray only in a crippled fashion. Further, such prayer encourages one of the faults which is most reprehended by spiritual instructors — turning to God without turning from Self.
“Most prayers have nothing in common with petitions.”
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
Context: When we speak of prayer or of the results of prayer we always imply only one kind of prayer — petition, or we think that petition can be united with all other kinds of prayers.… Most prayers have nothing in common with petitions. I speak of ancient prayers; many of them are much older than Christianity. These prayers are, so to speak, recapitulations; by repeating them aloud or to himself a man endeavors to experience what is in them, their whole content, with his mind and his feeling.