All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
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Blake on the Infinite Manifest
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.
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Tolkien on the Work of Small Hands
This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
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Ephrem on Good Friday
If he was not flesh, who cried out, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me”? And if he was not God, who said, “Father, forgive them”?
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Buechner on Time
There’s hours for you. It’s inch by inch and hour by hour to death. It’s hours gone and hours still to go. No puzzle there. A child can count it out. But what is time itself, dear friend? What is the sea where hours float? Am I daft, or is it true there's no such thing as hours past and other hours still to pass, but all of them instead are all at once and never gone? Is there no time lost that ever was? Is there no time yet to come that's not here now? There are two things which men can do about the pain of disunion with…