Daniel Flores Jr.

“Up now, slight man! flee, for a little while, your occupations; hide yourself for a time, from your disturbing thoughts. Cast aside now, your burdensome cares, and put away your toilsome business. Yield room for some little time to God; and rest for a little time in Him. Enter the inner chamber of your mind; shut out all thoughts except that of God, and such as can aid you in seeking Him; close your door and seek Him. Speak now, my whole heart! speak now to God, saying, I see your face; your face, Lord, will I seek. And You come now. O Lord my God, teach my heart where and how it may seek You, where and how it may find You.

…Be it mine to look up to Your light, even from afar, even from the depths. Teach me to seek You, and reveal Yourself to me, when I seek You, for I cannot seek You, except if You teach me, nor find You, except if You reveal Yourself. Let me seek You in longing, let me long for You in seeking; let me find You in love, and love You in finding. Lord, I acknowledge and I thank You that You have created me in this Your image, in order that I may be mindful of You, may conceive of You, and love You; but that image has been so consumed and wasted away by vices, and obscured by the smoke of wrong-doing, that it cannot achieve that for which it was made, except You renew it, and create it anew. I do not endeavor, O Lord, to penetrate Your sublimity, for in no wise do I compare my understanding with that; but I long to understand in some degree Your truth, which my heart believes and loves.

For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe, – that unless I believed, I should not understand.”

St. Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion