Enarrationes in psalmos 134,2
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Is it not something to reflect where we were lying and where we had been picked up? Is it not something to think about that the impious do not seek God, though He sought them when they were abandoned, and finding them he awakened them, and waking them he called them, and calling them He brought him in and made him stay permanently in His house? He who reflects on this and is not ungrateful, despises himself for love of God, to whom he owes so much benefits.