This was an early experiment in Perl. You may prefer to see the Complete List of Quotes.

Abba Moses stood before his students in the desert one day and gave this teaching: "Every word or image of God is more a distortion than a description!" The students were shocked and said, "But Abba, when you teach us of God you use words!" At this he laughed and said, "When I speak of God, listen less to the words, and ponder more the silence between the words."

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