St. Augustine, What is It Like For Man Before He Seeks God?
Question 022.
What is the relationship between prayer and conversion?
Part I: Before Conversion
Whoever knows himself to be in the depths [that is lost in sin] cries out with groans and sighs until he is delivered from the depths..until [God’s] own image, that image which is man, is freed by God. Unless he is made anew and […]
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 […]