Cornering the Market?

“Poets have… often communicated in their own mode of expression truths identical with the theologians’ truths; but just because of the difference in the modes of expression, we often fail to see the identity of the statements.”

• Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker

The Great Philosopher of Prayer

Said the great philosopher and theologian Huck Finn:

"You can't pray a lie--I found that out."

• Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)