“My mother would not be satisfied but urged him (a bishop) with repeated entreaties and floods of tears to see me and discuss with me. He, losing patience, said: ‘Go your way; as surely as you live, it is impossible that the son of those tears ahould perish.” Augustine and F. J. Sheed, Confessions, Book 3, pg. 51 (as noted in Ken Gurley’s, The Book on Prayer, pg. 254).