"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."
"I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed."
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Source: Augustine Saint Bishop of Hippo, St Augustine (2008). “The Happy Life; Answer to Skeptics; Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil; Soliloquies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 5)”, p.59, CUA Press
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