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