“Only a tender flower
Sent us to rear,
Only a life to love
While we are here,

Only a baby small,
Never at rest;
Small, but how dear to us
God knoweth best.”

“He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

“To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

“The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.”

Steven Spielberg (1946) American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

Carl Sagan book Contact

“All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.”

Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist

“We are none of us perfect, and… we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are”

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

“Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

“No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”

John the Evangelist (10–98) author of the Gospel of John; traditionally identified with John the Apostle of Jesus, John of Patmos (author o…

“I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta