Thursday, October 27, 2011

"Hast thou ever pictured thyself the one remaining creature in the earth, the one remaining creature in all the starry worlds?  In such a universe thine every thought would be 'God and I!  God and I!'  And yet He is as near to thee as that--as near as if in the boundless spaces there throbbed no heart but His and thine.  Practice that solitude, O my soul!  Practice the stillness of thine own heart!  Practice the solemn refrain 'God and I!  God and I!'" 

[George Matheson]
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