“Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.”

—  Keshub Chunder Sen

Sermon at Hackney Unitarian Church, London, on 24th April 1870.

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