For although we can never sufficiently
give thanks to Him, that we are, that we live, that we behold heaven
and earth, that we have mind and reason by which to seek after Him
who made all these things, nevertheless, what hearts, what number of
tongues, shall affirm that they are sufficient to render thanks to
Him for this, that He hath not wholly departed from us, laden and
overwhelmed with sins, averse to the contemplation of His light, and
blinded by the love of darkness, that is, of iniquity, but hath sent
to us His own Word, who is His only Son, that by His birth and
suffering for us in the flesh, which He assumed, we might know how
much God valued man and that by that unique sacrifice we might be
purified from all our sins and that, love being shed abroad in our
hearts by His Spirit, we might, having surmounted all difficulties,
come into eternal rest, and the ineffable sweetness of the
contemplation of Himself?
-Augustine, the City of God
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