Augustine

Augustine "I loved the happy life but I feared to find it in Your house and so I ran from it even as I sought after it. I thought that I would be miserable if I were kept from a woman's arms. I did not believe that a cure for this disease lay in Your mercy; I had no experience of such a cure. I believed that continence was within a man's own powers, though …

…time. Augustine answered in two ways; the first answer was, in Cartesian fashion, Si fallor, sum (if I am wrong, I am), the second was from Isaiah 7:9, "Unless you believe, you shall not understand.¡¨ (NIV) Only faith provides the base from which the quest for wisdom starts, because faith is a knowing and a not knowing; it allows love of a thing known possible, and allows the desire to love the thing not yet enjoyed.