Augustine was a bishop who lived in Hippo, a metropolis in North Africa on the Mediterranean. He got here to religion and was baptized at age 31 after residing a wild life and even spending a while within the Manichaean cult. He turned probably the most influential writers within the early church and is taken into account one of many nice ‘Docs of the Church.’ The Christian Church remembers Augustine on August 28.
Hear, Lord, my prayer;
don’t let my soul faint beneath your self-discipline,
don’t let me faint in confessing to you all of your mercies,
for you could have drawn me out of all my most evil methods,
that you simply is perhaps my delight
above all of the allurements which I as soon as pursued;
that I’ll most completely love you,
and clasp your hand with all my affections,
so that you could be nonetheless rescue me from each temptation,
even to the tip.
For lo, O Lord, my King and my God,
I give in your service no matter helpful factor my childhood discovered,
that I converse, write, learn, reckon in your service.
For you granted me your self-discipline,
whereas I used to be studying vanities;
and my sin of delighting in these vanities you could have forgiven.
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