“No one can lose you, my God, unless he forsakes you. And if he forsakes you, where is he to go? If he abandons your love, his only refuge is your wrath. Wherever he turns, he will find your law to punish him, for your law is the truth and the truth is yourself.”
More from Augustine of Hippo
“My heart grew sombre with grief, and wherever I looked I saw only death. My own country…”
“The evil in me was foul, but I loved it. I loved my own perdition and my own faults, not…”
“If babies are innocent, it is not for lack of will to do harm, but for lack of strength.”
“I did not know that evil is nothing but the removal of good until finally no good remains.”