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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 so great a good….For it is both sought in order that in finding it, it may be more sweetly enjoyed, and found that it might be more zealously sought.
from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by Fr. Ermatinger.
If one has […]
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 at this view of reality, the search has to begin, which entails shedding the skin of human wisdom and prudence. These steps in God’s direction, the search for him, are what occasion the Holy Spirit’s illumination for, Similarly, no one knows what pertains to God […]
