My Prayer For The New Year

"Give me Yourself, O my God, give Yourself back to me. Lo, I love You, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into Your arms, never swerving until hidden in the shelter of Your face. This alone I know, that without You all to me is misery, woe outside myself and woe within, and all wealth but nothing, without my God."


— St. Augustine of Hippo (Confessions)