“You admire this temple wrought by the hands of artisans; you admire its precious adornments which will be as dust before the face of the wind. You ought rather to wonder at the heavens and the earth, the land and the sea, and all the things that are in them; to wonder at the ornaments of the heavens, namely the sun and the moon and the stars, and at their servitude, whereby from the beginning of the world to the end thereof they run to the west and return to the east, night and day, and are never wearied. And when you have taken notice of these things, ask and learn who is more powerful than they! And when, by His own gift, you shall have come to know Him, . . . adore Him and glorify Him, for He is the God of gods and Lord of lords!”
~St. Catherine of Alexandria (given before Emperor Maxentius in the early fourth century, shortly before being martyred)
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