As for ourselves, we see the things you have made because they are. But they are because you see them. We see outwardly that they are and inwardly that they are good. But you saw them made when you saw that it was right to make them.
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Augustine on Doing Your Duty vs. Loving It
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.