' Seek Within '...

"I was wandering like a lost sheep, searching outside myself for that which was within.

I ran through all the streets and squares of this great city, the world, searching for Thee, God, and I found Thee not;

because I sought Thee wrongly.

Thou wert within me and I sought Thee without."



St. Augustine
Soliloquies, 387
in Ralph L.Woods, Ed.
The Treasury of Religious Quotations
NY: Garland, 1966, p. 595