“I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year,
"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown."”

—  Minnie Haskins

And he replied, "Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the hand of God.
That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way."
Poem, "God Knows" (1908) as quoted by George VI

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