11/01/2011

Our Hearts are Restless: A Prayer of Augustine of Hippo

Everlasting God,
in whom we live and move and have our being:
You have made us for yourself,
so that our hearts are restless
until they rest in you. - Augustine of Hippo (345-430)

Quiet Prayer

  "For what purpose did Christ go up into the mountains? To teach us that loneliness and retirement  is  good when we are to pray to Go...