He asks not that our love should equal his but resemble his;
not that it should be of the same strength, but of the same kind.
A pearl of dew will not hold the sun, but it may hold a spark of its light.
A child by that sea, trying to catch the waves as they dash in
clouds of crystal spray upon the sand, cannot hold the ocean in a
tiny shell. But he can hold a drop of the ocean
water.