I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul: not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love I do it; reviewing my most wicked ways in the very bitterness of my rememberance, that Thou mayest grow sweet unto me; (thou sweetness never failing, Though blissful and assured sweetness;) and gather me again out of that my dissipation, wherein I was torn piecemeal, while turned from Thee, the One Good, I lost myself among a multiplicity of things. For I even burnt in my youth hertofore, to be satiated in things below; and I dared to grow wild again, with these various and shadowy loves; my beauty consumed away,and I stand in Thine eyes; pleasing myself, and desirous to please in the eyes of men.
--Augustine Confessions.
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