2/13/2023 0 Comments Undistracted prayer ewtnLet me seek Thee, Lord, in calling on Thee, and call on Thee in believing in Thee for Thou hast been preached unto us. For those who seek shall find Him, and those who find Him shall praise Him. "But how shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? or how shall they believe without a preacher?" And those who seek the Lord shall praise Him. Or perhaps we call on Thee that we may know Thee. But who is there that calls upon Thee without knowing Thee? For he that knows Thee not may call upon Thee as other than Thou art. Lord, teach me to know and understand which of these should be first, to call on Thee, or to praise Thee and likewise to know Thee, or to call upon Thee. Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee. 1 And man, being a part of Thy creation, desires to praise Thee,�man, who bears about with him his mortality, the witness of his sin, even the witness that Thou "resistest the proud,"�yet man, this part of Thy creation, desires to praise Thee. GREAT art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised great is Thy power, and of Thy wisdom there is no end. I.�He proclaims the greatness of God, whom he desires to seek and invoke, being awakened by him.ġ. COMMENCING WITH THE INVOCATION OF GOD, AUGUSTINE RELATES IN DETAIL THE BEGINNING OF HIS LIFE, HIS INFANCY AND BOYHOOD, UP TO HIS FIFTEENTH YEAR AT WHICH AGE HE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE WAS MORE INCLINED TO ALL YOUTHFUL PLEASURES AND VICES THAN TO THE STUDY OF LETTERS.Ĭhap.
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