St. Augustine, What is Praise?
Question 041. Part I What is praise? Do not think that he can be praised enough whose greatness is endless. Should not then your praise be endless since he has no end?... Praise of God sets you on your way and should determine what you ought to love and what you should fear; what you should seek, and what you should avoid…The silence of the heart is the cooling of charity, the cry of praise [...]
St. Augustine, How Can Song Be A Prayer?
Question 040. Can song really be counted as prayer? Singing is proper to one in love… Jubilee is a sort of sound which means that the heart wants to give birth to that which cannot be uttered. And who deserves such jubilation if not the ineffable God? And ineffable is that which cannot be said or even touched. What remains if not jubilation in that the heart opens itself to a wordless joy, and the [...]