"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."
"It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result."
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Source: Confessions by Saint Augustine, Book I, (7), (c. 397).
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