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To: Salvation

A small piece of a writing by St. Augustine is engraved on my heart:

“Who shall grant me to rest in Thee? By whose gift shalt Thou enter into my heart, and fill it so compellingly that I shall turn no more to my sins, but embrace Thee, my Only Good?

“What art Thou to me? Have mercy, that I may tell. What, rather am I to Thee that Thou shouldst demand my love, and if I do not love Thee, threaten such great woe?

“Surely, not to love Thee is already a great woe...”


4 posted on 11/02/2009 7:37:49 PM PST by Judith Anne (Drill in the USA and offshore USA!! Drill NOW and build more refineries!!!! Defund the EPA!)
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To: Judith Anne

That is beautiful.


5 posted on 11/02/2009 8:25:38 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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