"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."  And he replied, "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God.  That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way."

-Minnie Louise Haskins
prose introduction to "God Know," The Desert (self-published, 1908)

(I got this quote from a BYU speech given by Thomas S. Monson, November 13, 2007)