“I lift up mine invisible eyes to Thee, that Thou wouldest pluck my feet out of the snare.”
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Augustine
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Confessions, c. 400
A rhetoric teacher from Numidia who chased pleasure and philosophy through Carthage, Rome and Milan, and wrote the first book in which a man tells God what he had been. Our heart is restless until it rests in Thee.
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Kept by Substance · the quoted lines are theirs, the rest written after them · Confessions
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“How long slow of heart? why do ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?”
“Rejoicing in that tumult of the senses wherein the world forgetteth Thee its Creator, and becometh enamoured of Thy creature, instead of Thyself.”