The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer whi…

George Eliot
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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. ✨ George Eliot (2016). Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus, p.318, 谷月社
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