I bought this book today called 'The Confessions of Saint Augustine' and started reading it on the bus on the way home from work. One part of the first chapter really made me think and I read it over and over again. My deduction so far? Augie was a wise old saint... I have typed it out below:
You cannot change, yet You change everything.
You are never new, yet never old.
You make all things new, yet conquer the proud with old age before they know of its approach.
You are ever working, yet ever at rest.
You are still gathering yet You lack nothing.
You are still supporting, filling, overspreading; still creating, nourishing, and maturing; still seeking, although You have all things.
You love without yearning, are jealous without bitterness; share our regret without self-reproach; express anger without losing serenity.
When all others fail to propose, Your purpose remains unchanged.
You receive what You found yet had never lost.
You are never in need yet rejoice in what you gain.
You never covet yet exact excessive payments, so that You may owe.
Yet who has anything that is not already Yours?
You pay debts when You owe nothing, but in remitting debts You lose nothing.
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