It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world… then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.

It is possible to pray in such a way that one does not transcend the world, in such a way that the divine is degraded to a functional part of the workaday world… then it is no longer devotion to the divine, but an attempt to master it.

– Josef Pieper –

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