Returning

O Lord our God let us hope in the protecting shadow of Thy wings. Guard us and bear us up. Bear us up thou wilt . . . for when Thou art our strength, it is strength indeed, but when our strength is our own it is only weakness . . . Let us now return to Thee, O Lord, that we may not be overturned, for with Thee lives without any defect our good which is Thyself. We have no fear that there should be no place of return, merely because by our own act we fell from it: our absence does not cause our home to fall, which is Thy Eternity.

Augustine, Confessions, 4 xvi, trans F J Sheed.