"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 not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud."
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Source: Confessions bk. 8, ch. 7 (397 - 398)
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