“They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars.”
Donald Miller
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
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