"I serve the great gods daily with prayers, and my fervent entreaties are sublime. O youthful Utu, for that reason look favourably upon your city Larsa! Say "Alas!" for your city! Say "Alas for the sanctuary!"! Extend sympathetic compassion to Larsa! So that may escape the clutches of death. May its seed be great! May sing your praises! And as for me, for my reverence give me life! Bestow on me long life as a gift!"
React to this quote
More by Sin-Iddinam
See allResonant Thoughts
"I swear to you, you're missing the whole point of the Jesus Prayer. The Jesus Prayer has one aim, and one aim only. To endow the person who says it with Christ-Consciousness. Not to set up some little…"
"Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating the world , and he with his own image reached down to humanity."
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"Aegistheus, the kings have another secret.... Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the Gods can …"
— Jean-Paul Sartre"God, you must be a couple of pansies."
— Wilfred Thesiger"All religions were tolerated under this system: a belief in God was the sole qualification..."
— Alessandro Cagliostro"Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture."
— Geert Wilders"This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there’s no quick solution. If you think it’s …"
— James MacDonald"The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a co…"
— Joseph Campbell