
Confessions: St Augustine

You are not scattered. Rather we are gathered.
Ben O'Rourke • Confessions: St Augustine
For you have so made us that we long for you, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Ben O'Rourke • Confessions: St Augustine
For, if we call for help and do not know you, could we not mistake some other for you? Yet maybe we should call to you so that we can know you.
Ben O'Rourke • Confessions: St Augustine
We long to praise you, though we are burdened by our mortality. Though we are conscious of sin, we long to praise you.
Ben O'Rourke • Confessions: St Augustine
What are you to me? Help me answer that question.
Ben O'Rourke • Confessions: St Augustine
And again they shall praise the Lord that seek him,4 for they that seek shall find.
Ben O'Rourke • Confessions: St Augustine
Is it then that your whole being is in everything, yet nothing can contain you wholly?
Ben O'Rourke • Confessions: St Augustine
The house of my soul is small: too small for you to enter. Enlarge it. It is a ruin. But I ask you to repair it.
Ben O'Rourke • Confessions: St Augustine
I would be nothing at all, my God, unless you were in me, or rather, I would not exist unless I were in you. For all that exists comes from you, comes through you, and is in you. So it is, Lord. So it is.