
Faith is the soul's true country, and prayer is its native language. With these words, author and theologian Donald Spoto begins his wide-ranging exploration of the most intimate form of communication and the deepest level of spirituality--prayer.

Drawing on the words of religious thinkers of both the East and the West, from the author of Psalms to Rumi and from Teresa of gvila to Ch]gyam Trungpa, In Silence explores the nature, quality, history, and effects of prayer: as petition, as forgiveness, as cry of suffering,...