"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."
"He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth."
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Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo, Saint Augustine, Thomas A'Kempis (2006). “The Confessions of St. Augustine, Including the Imitation of Christ”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.
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