I have, O Lord, walked with the world, it is true.
I have desired what is in the world, it is true.
But all these had to do with lust and not love.
Lust is temporary;
it is transient and superficial, but love is deep,
in the inner depths of the heart.
The things in the world were a lust-
but they were not love;
love is for You alone.
—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Before the Just Judge