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For God is silence, and in silence is he sung by means of that psalmody which is worthy of Him.

— John of Apamea

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Do not imagine, brother, that prayer consists solely of words, or that it can be learnt by means of words.

You should pray therefore in spirit, seeing that He is Spirit.

Thus there is a silence of the tongue

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