He who prays and labours lifts his heart to God with his hands.
Qui orat et laborat, cor levat ad Deum cum manibus.
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Ad sororem. A similar expression is found in the works of Gregory the Great—Moral in Libr. Job, Book XVIII. Also in Pseudo-Hieron, in Jerem., Thren. III. 41. See also "What worship, for example, is there not in mere washing!" Carlyle—Past and Present, Chapter XV., referring to "Work is prayer".