Augustine Aurelius Augustinus

c. 397 · Roman North Africa · Opening the book with a prayer to God

You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.

Confessions, book 1, chapter 1

In the same thread

15th century · Varanasi, North India

O servant, where dost thou seek Me? Lo! I am beside thee.

Songs of Kabir, the first song · in place of the original: the English translation by Rabindranath Tagore (1915)