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 the Way to the Homeland of Peace
It is one thing from a wooded summit to catch a glimpse of the homeland of peace and not to find the way to it, but vainly to attempt the journey along an impracticable route surrounded by ambushes and assaults of fugitive deserters with their chief, "the lion and the dragon." It is another thing to hold on to the way that leads there.
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The World as a Kolam: Reflections on Augustine and The Supper of the Lamb
As mankind elevates the world’s beauty through his senses, so his soul is elevated. He is transformed from a mere consumer of the world, to its attentive lover. And in this transformation he becomes what he was always meant to be: made in the image of God, participating in the Divine work of preserving and sustaining creation, fully inhabiting the created world, in which he lives and moves and has his being.
