"Stone Tablets" Quotes
I wrote this a while ago, but never posted it. This is a really good read.
"Yet his consolation was this: because he paused so much, spoke so slowly, framing each word, checking it and double checking, he always said exactly what he meant to say. Words never slipped out, the way they did with other men. Almost that made up for not being able to speak freely and easily."--Moses
"She wanted to tell him that he did not have to speak the words aloud, that if Satan blocks the tongue, God can also hear the thoughts of the heart."--Zeforah, about Moses trying to pray for the first time.
[a prayer of Moses' mother] "Hast thou ever had a son? Does God contain within his infinite wisdom the knowledge of how it feels to cast a son upon the waters, to set children free into the terrible heat of the sun? Be merciful with my children, as thou wouldst be with thine own most beloved child."
"Yet his consolation was this: because he paused so much, spoke so slowly, framing each word, checking it and double checking, he always said exactly what he meant to say. Words never slipped out, the way they did with other men. Almost that made up for not being able to speak freely and easily."--Moses
"She wanted to tell him that he did not have to speak the words aloud, that if Satan blocks the tongue, God can also hear the thoughts of the heart."--Zeforah, about Moses trying to pray for the first time.
[a prayer of Moses' mother] "Hast thou ever had a son? Does God contain within his infinite wisdom the knowledge of how it feels to cast a son upon the waters, to set children free into the terrible heat of the sun? Be merciful with my children, as thou wouldst be with thine own most beloved child."