"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."
"How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable."
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Source: Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.281
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