Prayer for the Light of Truth
1 min • Digitized on June 11, 2024
From Meditations and Devotions, page 288
By St. John Henry Newman
PRAYER FOR THE LIGHT OF TRUTH
I should like an enquirer to say continually
O my God, I confess that Thou canst enlighten my darkness. I confess that Thou alone canst. I wish my darkness to be enlightened. I do not know whether Thou wilt: but that Thou canst and that I wish, are sufficient reasons for me to ask, what Thou at least hast not forbidden my asking. I hereby promise that by Thy grace which I am asking, I will embrace whatever I at length feel certain is the truth, if ever I come to be certain. And by Thy grace I will guard against all self-deceit which may lead me to take what nature would have, rather than what reason approves.