“It is the dead who have lost their life, but the living experience death. Blessed is he who loves you, who loves his friend in you and his enemy for your sake. Only he to whom all are dear in Him who cannot be lost, can lose no one that he loves. And who is that but our God, the God who made heaven and earth and who fills them, since by filling them he made them? None can lose you, unless he so chooses; and if he so chooses, where will he go or flee but from your tranquillity to your anger? Where will he not find your Law to punish him? For Your law is truth,
and the Truth is You.
—St. Augustine, from the fourth book of his Confessions.
