Imago Dei

That day

Sunday, 8 October 2006

The verse

“For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.”
Psalm 30:5 · WEB

From the tradition

“Too late did I love Thee, O Fairness, so ancient, and yet so new! Too late did I love Thee!”

Augustine of Hippo · Confessions, Book X, chapter 27

In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. J. G. Pilkington, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, vol. 1, ed. Philip Schaff (1886)), checked against the source edition.

Days before