St. Augustine, Does Finding God End Our Searching?
Question 021.
Is God to be sought even after we have found him?
Such is the way with incomprehensible things – they must be investigated so that no one believes he has found a mere nothing, when in fact he has been able to find how incomprehensible that is what he was seeking…And making progress in the search itself, he becomes ever better while seeking […]
St. Augustine, Though I Seek God, He Seems to Hide From Me?
Question 020.
If God wants me to find him, why does he play hide-and-seek with me?
… simply beginning the search is, to a certain extent, already to have begun to bridge the gap between God and ourselves. It enables us to enter into the mind of God, and from that point of vantage to contemplate God’s work and the mysteries of faith. To arrive […]
St. Augustine, How Is It That My Inclination to Pray Is a Part of My Nature?
Question 019.
Does that mean that my inclination to pray is part of my nature? That I have come prepackaged for an encounter with God?
[Jesus] being glorified in his resurrection and ascension, brought many rich men to hold this present world in disdain, and thus truly enriching them by granting them the Holy Spirit and thereby extinguishing all longing for wealth. Otherwise, […]