“Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.” YearsWholeFeelingsHandsAgeStrangeMetsSixBiggerResponsibleFingersStrange ThingsOld YouToddlerAcknowledgmentSix Year OldsFolding Author:David Levithan
“It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.” IfsWorldWaySoulWholeLosesForgetGainsSticksFingersWhole WorldYour SoulPrudentSlipping Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Let me make it quite clear that when Christians say the Christ-life is in them, they do not mean simply something mental or moral. When they speak of being "in Christ" or of Christ being "in them", this is not simply a way of saying that they are thinking about Christ or copying Him. They mean that Christ is actually operating through them; that the whole mass of Christians are the physical organism through which Christ acts--that we are His fingers and muscles, the cells of His body.” ThinkingWayMeanWholeBodyChristianLife IsSpeakChristMoralClearMassLet MeFingersCellsMusclesOrganismsCopying Author:C. S. Lewis
“Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.” WorldDoeWholeNightHurtFingersWhole WorldRanIt HurtsLapAtlasShire Author:Warsan Shire
“Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is clogged by your hard hearts and rigid fingers. Give and spend, and be sure that God will send; for only in giving and spending do you fulfill the object of His sending.” WorldGivingHeartHardWholeHandsWaitingObjectsDivineFingersSpendingGods WillShoppingMachineryBenevolenceWaiting For YouBeneficence Author:Bill Vaughan
“Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.” TryingChildrenWholeBodyPainMotherHellImagineMereFingersSpreadSurfaceYour BodyTouchingImagine ThatFractionsFingertipsStoves Book:The Rector of Justin Source: The Rector of Justin