“I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra souls because we started out with less, and that we could make gates because of our innately human sense of home. But my home was here. How on earth was I supposed to find another one?The gate needs to be opened and closed before dawn, Cresseda said, a hint of strain flowing through her voice.YES. THANKS FOR THAT. VERY HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.” WayNeedsHumansSaidSoulHomeEyeEarthVoiceRoomsRight NowEmptyThanksDawnExtrasHelpfulGatesStrainHints Author:Kiersten White
“There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than God, and that we are the crown of creation. That interpretation has come at the expense of the one that says when God, in the story of Noah, intervened to save human life against the flood, against the acts of nature, He did not stop with human beings. He made sure that every kind of animal was represented twice on that ark.” MenHumansKindLittlesMadeStoriesHuman BeingsAnimalCreationCreaturesTheologyHuman LifeInterpretationExpensesCrownsFloodStrainHistoricDominionPsalmsArk Author:Bill Moyers
“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.” WorldHumansSoulBitsLogicInfiniteCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningNervesBroadsStrainCurtainsHuman SoulOntology Book:Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals Source: Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals