Quote by Leonard Cohen

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child

Summary

This quote suggests that prayer is like a form of translation. During prayer, a person transforms themselves into a child, humbly seeking everything they desire in a language they may not fully understand or have complete mastery over. The act of praying involves a level of vulnerability, as individuals communicate their deepest needs and desires to a higher power, trusting that their prayers will be heard and understood. It highlights the simplicity and sincere nature of prayer, emphasizing the humility and dependency of the one who prays.

Topics

Prayer

By Leonard Cohen

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite

Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite.

Food

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

Music

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always h

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Law

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments

There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.

Timothy Geithner

Money

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Ca

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

James Stockdale

History

I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long

I used to say: there is a God-shaped hole in me. For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

Religion

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How man

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

Punctuality

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguish tightens your throatAs if you were never to be loved againIf you lived in the old days you would enter a monasteryYou are ashamed when you discover yourself reciting a prayerYou make fun of yourself and like the fire of Hell your laughter cracklesThe sparks of your laugh gild the depths of your lifeIt's a painting hanging in a dark museumAnd sometimes you go and look at it close up

Guillaume Apollinaire

Love Prayer Laughter City Paris Painting Crowd Anguish Laughing Praying Monastery Museum

All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in

All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor our precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature.

Nature

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children,

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Psychology

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

God

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong,

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

Confidence