In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.
God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.
The theatre is like a Catholic Mass of language.
