And I - miserable and most worthless of men - how shall I bring Thee into my house, I who can hardly even spend half an hour properly in prayer? And would that for once I could spend half an hour rightly!
...Alas how little it is that I do, how short a time do I spend in preparing myself for Communion! Seldom am I wholly recollected, very seldom entirely free from distraction.
Yet surely in the life-giving presence of Deity no unbecoming thought should arise; nor should any creature occupy my mind; for it is not an angel, but the Lord of Angels, Whom I am going to receive as my Guest.
Book 4, ch.1
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