Desire Quote by George Eliot

“The child destined to be a writer is vulnerable to every wind that blows. Now warm, now chill, next joyous, then despairing, the essence…

— Daphne Du Maurier

“The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any…

— N.T. Wright

“The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship.”

— The Catholic Church

[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified…

— Irenaeus of Lyons

Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is…

— Anonymous

I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well -…

— Florence Welch

Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation of the…

— Ibn Ata Allah

“I can see better when i close my eyes; don't make much ado, that's my latest style of view.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions…

— Margaret Thatcher

By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention,…

— David Truman

...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

— William J. Clinton

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

— Alan Moore