"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."
"God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless"
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Source: Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.58, Oxford Paperbacks
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