I know, Lord, and acknowledge myself unworthy of your love. But I am sure you are altogether worthy of mine. I am not good enough to serve you, but you have a right to the best service I can give. Give me some of that excellence that will supply my own lack of worth. Help me to cease from sin against your will, that I may render you service according to my duty. Enable me so to guard and govern myself, to begin and finish my course, that when the race of life is run, I may sleep in peace and rest in you. Be with me to the end, that my sleep may be rest indeed, my rest perfect security, and that security, a blessed eternity. Amen.
St. Augustine (354–430). Revised from Prayers Ancient and Modern.
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