Lord, you are great and infinitely worthy of praise.
Great is your power and inscrutable your widsom.
Man (sic) is a puny part of your creation, and his desire is to praise you. He bears everywhere his mortality, the sign of his sin, to remind him that you resist the proud.
And yet this man desires to praise you, since he is a puny part of your creation.
It is you who bring him to seek joy in praising you, because you have made us for yourself and our heart is restless until it finds rest in you.’
(Augustine of Hippo)
From The Confessions, Book 1