Aporia on the Ordinary

aporia: an expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty especially for rhetorical effect (Greek aporos, “impassable”)

Came across these in the same day:

“When someone does something good in faith, he must always also confess, ‘as far as I am involved in this, it’s nothing, it doesn’t register.’ To think that you can eventually produce something great by adding such nothings would not only be absurd, it would be a sin against faith.” (Adrienne von Speyr, “Holiness in the Everyday”)

“But in heaven, they don’t fall on top of each other. They are placed
end to end. And they make a bridge
That brings us to the other side.” (Charles Péguy, The Portal of the Mystery of the Second Virtue)