O Eternal truth, true love and beloved
eternity. You are my God. To you do I sigh day and night. When I first came to know you, you drew me to
yourself so that I might see that there were things for me to see, but that I
myself was not yet ready to see them.
Meanwhile, you overcame the weakness of my vision, sending forth most
strongly the beams of your light, and I trembled at once with love and dread… I
sought a way to gain the strength which I needed to enjoy you. But I did not find it until I embraced the
mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who is above all, God
blessed for ever. He was calling me and
saying: I am the way of truth, I am the
life.
--St. Augustine, Late Have I Loved Thee
Image source: Fra
Angelico, The Conversion of St.
Augustine (detail), c. 1430.
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