“Grant me, Lord, to know and understand which comes first—to call upon you or to praise you, and whether knowing you precedes calling upon you. For who can call upon you without knowing you? For he who does not know you may call upon you as another than you are.”
–Saint Augustine of Hippo, 5th Century
From Confessions, Book 1, Chapter 6, page 3 in the Oxford World’s Classics edition, translated by Henry Chadwick (1991)