"You
judge me, O Lord, for, although no one 'knows the things of a man but the
spirit of man which is in him,' there is something further in man which not
even that spirit of man which is in him knows. But you, Lord, who made him,
know all things that are in him. Although I despise myself before your sight,
and account myself but dust and ashes, yet I know something of you which I do
not know about myself. In truth, 'we see now through a glass in a dark manner,'
and not yet 'face to face.' ... Let me confess, then, what I know about
myself. Let me confess also what I do not know about myself, since that too
which I know about myself I know because you enlighten me. As to that which I
am ignorant of concerning myself, I remain ignorant of it until my 'darkness
shall be made as the noonday in your sight.'"
— St. Augustine, The
Confession of St. Augustine, p. 197
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