Even after his duty and his proper aim shall begin to become known to him, unless a man also take delight in and feel a love for it, he neither does his duty, nor sets about it, nor lives rightly. Now, in order that such a course may engage our affections, God's love is shed abroad in our hearts.
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Augustine on the Restless Heart
You move us to delight in praising You; for You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.
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Augustine on Truth
Let every good and true Christian understand that wherever truth may be found, it belongs to his Master.
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Buechner on Teaching
To teach a class, whether you do it well or badly, is to achieve fifty minutes of self-forgetfulness. More even than the long summer vacations, it is the principle side-benefit that the profession offers.
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Self-Portrait After an Election
This process of testing myself in front of different pieces wasn’t just a matter of finding an image to fit my mood—the way you might scroll through a streaming service at the end of the day, hoping to find something that will scratch your particular itch. It was a process of clarification, of clarifying what I really thought and felt. In testing my own frame of mind against the framing of these artworks, I was distinguishing between what I was really experiencing and what I thought I should be experiencing, or saw others experiencing around me.
