Prayers of the Saints
Restless Until It Rests in You (St. Augustine)
The opening paragraph of the Confessions, and the sentence that has defined Christian anthropology ever since: we are made for God and cannot settle anywhere short of him.
Great are you, O Lord, and greatly to be praised;
great is your power, and your wisdom is without measure.
And man, who is a part of your creation,
wishes to praise you —
man, who bears about within himself his mortality,
who bears about within himself the testimony of his sin.
Yet man, this part of your creation, wishes to praise you.
You stir him up to take delight in praising you,
for you have made us for yourself,
and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Confessions, Book I, ch. 1
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Prayed at the beginning of retreats and by anyone who cannot name what they are missing.
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