O Truth, O Light of my heart, let not my own darkness speak to me! I had fallen into that darkness and was darkened thereby. But in it, even in its depths, I came to love You. I went astray and still I remembered You. I heard Your voice behind me, bidding me return, though [...]
I wish now to review in memory my past wickedness and the carnal corruptions of my soul-not because I still love them, but that I may love Thee, O My God. For love of Thy love I do this, recalling in the bitterness of self-examination my wicked ways, that Thou may grow sweet to me, [...]
This Creation–whose delight Thou alone art–is not coeternal with You. With a most persevering purity it draws its support from You and nowhere and never betrays its own mutability, for Thou art ever present with it; and it cleaves to You with its entire affection, having no future to expect and no past that it [...]