If, like us, you've been churning out the sermons lately and feeling the sharp edge of your own inadequacy, take heart. St. Augustine, our brother and friend, writes:
[My] own way of expressing myself almost always disappoints me. I am anxious for the best possible, as I feel it in me before I start brining it into the open in plain words; and when I see that it is less impressive than I had felt it to be, I am saddened that my tongue cannot live up to my heart. [On Teaching the Unlearned, 2:3, quoted in P. Brown, Augustine, 256].
That's about it.
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