Patristic Quote of the Day

Thou alone, O my Creator, knowest all my secret falls and the full extent of my sins.  No one has ever been such a dwelling-place of sin as I.  No one ever embittered Thy grace, O Master, as fully as I, who followed the aims of sin.  But do Thou, Who art a sea of goodness, dry up the ruinous sea of my sins.  Do Thou, Who art an abyss of loving-kindness, drown the abyss of my sins.  -- St. Ephraim the Syrian, A Spiritual Psalter, #61