Matthew 18:1-4

"'Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?' And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, 'Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kindgom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.'"

The Lamb

Little Lamb, who made thee?

Dost thou know who made thee?

Gave thee life & bid thee feed.

By the stream & o'er the mead;

Gave thee clothing of delight,

Softest clothing wooly bright;

Gave thee such a tender voice,

Making all the vales rejoice!

Little Lamb, who made thee?

Dost thou know who made thee?

Little lamb I'll tell thee,

Little Lamb I'll tell thee!

He is called by thy name,

For he calls himself a Lamb:

He is meek and he is mild,

He became a little child:

I a child and thou a lamb,

We are called by his name.

Little Lamb God bless thee.

Little Lamb God bless thee.

-William Blake

"A child can be told everything-everything! I've always been struck by the fact that grownups, fathers and mothers, know their children so little. One must never conceal anything from children on the pretext that they are too little and it is too early to know things. What a lamentable and unfortunate idea! And how quick children are to notice that their fathers consider them to be too little to understand, while they understand everything." -Fyodor Dostoevsky

"...as when you were a child, when the grown-ups walked around involved with matters that seemed large and important because they looked so busy and you didn't understand a thing about what they were doing. And when you realize their activities are shabby, that their vocations are petrified and no longer connected with life, why not then continue to look upon it all as a child would, as if you were looking at something unfamiliar, out of the depths of your own solitude, which is itself work and status and vocation?" Rainer Maria Rilke