From Julian of Norwich, in a vision the Lord gave her:
And he showed me something no bigger than a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand, and round as a ball. I looked at it with the eye of my understanding and thought: What can this be? I was amazed that it could last, for because of its littleness I thought it would fall into nothing. And I was answered in my understanding:
It lasts and always will, because God loves it. Thus, everything has being through the love of God.