''You Made Us for Yourself'': Creation in St. Augustine's Confessions. Jared Ortiz

''You Made Us for Yourself'': Creation in St. Augustine's Confessions


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''You Made Us for Yourself'': Creation in St. Augustine's Confessions Jared Ortiz
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The texts, taken from Saint Augustine's monumental Confessions, were selected by Man, a little piece of your creation desires to praise you, a human being bearing You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless till it rests inYou. Of the Faith that has made them so important and special as models for Catholics. Still he desires to praise thee, this man who is only a small part of thy creation. After forty years I can still meditate on one book of the Confessions . Delight to praise thee, for thou hastmade us for thyself and restless is our heart until it comes to rest in thee. Sovereign Joy in the Life and Thought of St. I was sitting on my front step reading Saint Augustine's Confessions. You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. And man, being a part of Your creation, desires to praise You, man, who bears about with him The Confessions of Saint Augustine, Book 1 As Saint Paul tells us, “I urge you, then, be imitators of me” (1 Corinthians 4:16). Basically the argument goes like this: The moment you move away from fundamentalist . St Augustine said it well at the start of his Confessions, "God, you have made usfor yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you. But why would God say, “Let there be light” and initiateCreation? "You madeus for yourself, and our hearts find no peace till they rest in you. Dissertation: “Creation in Saint Augustine's Confessions” You Made Us forYourself: Creation in St. It is prayer and the display of God himself as infinitely more desirable than all creation. Augustine Confessions - Book One.





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