Whence could such a creature(man) come but from Thee O Lord? Or shall any man be skillful enough to fashion himself? Or is their any other vein by which being and life runs into us save this, that "Thou, O Lord hast made us," with whom being and life are one, because Thou Thyself art being and life in the highest? Thou art the highest, "Thou changest not," neither in Thee doth this present day come to an end, though it doth end in Thee, since in Thee all such things are; for they would have no way unless Thou sustainest them. And since "Thy years shall have no end," Thy years are an ever present day. And how many of ours and fathers' days have passed through this Thy day, and received from it their measure and fashion of being; and others yet to come shall so receive and pass away! "But Thou art the same," and all the things of tomorrow and the days yet to come, and all of yesterday, and the days that are past, Thou wilt do today, Thou hast done today.
What is it to me if any understandeth not? Let him still rejoice and say "What is this?" Let him rejoice even so, and rather love to discover in failing to discover, than in discovering not to discover Thee.
Augustine
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