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Confessiones (PL)
CAPUT PRIMUM. Difficilis inquisitio veri.
[Col. 0825]
1. Multa satagit cor meum, Domine, in hac inopia vitae meae pulsatum verbis sanctae Scripturae tuae: et ideo plerumque in sermone copiosa est egestas humanae intelligentiae; quia plus loquitur inquisitio quam inventio, et longior est petitio quam impetratio, et operosior est manus pulsans quam sumens. Tenemus promissum; quis corrumpet illud? Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos 1? Petite, et accipietis; quaerite, et invenietis; pulsate, et aperietur vobis. Omnis enim qui petit accipit, et quaerens invenit, [Col. 0826] et pulsanti aperietur 2. Promissa tua sunt; et quis falli timeat, cum promittit Veritas?
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The Confessions of St. Augustin In Thirteen Books
Chapter I .--The Discovery of Truth is Difficult, But God Has Promised that He Who Seeks Shall Find.
1. My heart, O Lord, affected by the words of Thy Holy Scripture, is much busied in this poverty of my life; and therefore, for the most part, is the want of human intelligence copious in language, because inquiry speaks more than discovery, and because demanding is longer than obtaining, and the hand that knocks is more active than the hand that receives. We hold the promise; who shall break it? "If God be for us, who can be against us?" 1 "Ask, and ye shall have; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened." 2 These are Thine own promises; and who need fear to be deceived where the Truth promiseth?