"Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all."
This famous quote is a comfort to many heartbroken Romeo's.
(My Dad said it to me once! Yup, it was a rainy afternoon at a PJ State back alley that I uttered "I luv u" for first time. Not exactly a romantic setting.. but it was like losing one's 'emotional virginity')
It's also a handy quote to impress girls with.
(Yea, it's so common, but it works if u say it to someone who hasn't heard it...)
What I didn't know was it was Augustine who said it! Wow, sifu really is sifu...
This famous quote is a comfort to many heartbroken Romeo's.
(My Dad said it to me once! Yup, it was a rainy afternoon at a PJ State back alley that I uttered "I luv u" for first time. Not exactly a romantic setting.. but it was like losing one's 'emotional virginity')
It's also a handy quote to impress girls with.
(Yea, it's so common, but it works if u say it to someone who hasn't heard it...)
What I didn't know was it was Augustine who said it! Wow, sifu really is sifu...
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"Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof."
No further would I read, nor did I need; for instantly, as the sentence ended, - by a light, as it were, of security infused into my heart, - all the gloom of doubt vanished away.
I sought a way to gain the strength which I needed to enjoy you. But I did not find it until I embraced "the mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who is above all, God blessed for ever." He was calling me and saying: "I am the way of truth, I am the life."
Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved you! You were within me, but I was outside, and it was there that I searched for you. In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you they would have not been at all. You called, you shouted, and you broke through my deafness. You flashed, you shone, and you dispelled my blindness. You breathed you fragrance on me; I drew in breath and now I pant for you. I have tasted you, now I hunger and thirst for more. You touched me, and I burned for your peace.