"Too late did I love You, O Fairness, so ancient, and yet so new! Too late did I love You! For behold, You were within, and I without, and there did I seek You... You were with me, but I was not with You. ... You called, and cried aloud, and forced open my deafness."
— Augustine
Source: Confessions, Book X, ch. 27
Love, Search, Plan
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""I love humanity," he said, "but I wonder at myself. The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular. ... But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.""
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Source: The Brothers Karamazov, Book II, ch. 4 "A Lady of Little Faith" (Zossima quoting a doctor; tr. Constance Garnett)
Love, humility, image, reality
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"I know there are those who care at home, but do all who care, care deeply enough? Do they feel as Jesus feels? And if they do, are they giving their own? They are helping to send out others, perhaps; but are they giving their own? Oh, are they truly giving themselves? ... "Worthy is the Lamb to receive!" Oh, we say it, and we pray it! Do we act as if we meant it?"
— Amy Carmichael
Source: Amy Carmichael, Things as They Are: Mission Work in Southern India (1903), ch. XXXII