"There is no god but God!--to prayer--lo! God is great!"

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed,--
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.

 James Montgomery ( 1771 – 1854 ) was a British editor, hymn writer and poet. He was particularly associated with humanitarian causes such as the campaigns to abolish slavery and to end the exploitation of child chimney sweeps. During his life he composed some 400 hymns, although less than a hundred are current today.

"Consider the significance of silence: it is boundless, never by meditating to be exhausted, unspeakably profitable to thee! Cease that chaotic hubbub, wherein thy own soul runs to waste, to confused suicidal dislocation and stupor; out of silence comes thy strength. Speech is silvern, silence is golden; speech is human, silence is divine.

Fool! thinkest thou that because no one stands near with parchment and black lead to note thy jargon, it therefore dies and is harmless? Nothing dies, nothing can die. No idlest word thou speakest but is a seed cast into Time, and grows through all eternity. The recording angel, consider it well, is no fable, but the truest of truths; the paper tablets thou canst burn; of the 'iron leaf' there is no burning." Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle ( 1795 – 1881 ) was a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era.

What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me? Carlyle

"There is no god but God!--to prayer--lo! God is great!" Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS ( 1788 –  1824 ), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement.