Augustine: the object of our desires

Monday, May 21, 2012
    Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330
Meditation:
    I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people.
    —Leviticus 26:12 (NIV)
Quotation:
    God Himself, who is the Author of virtue, shall there [in the city of God] be its reward; for, as there is nothing greater or better, He has promised Himself. What else was meant by His word through the prophet, “I will be your God, and ye shall be my people,” than, I shall be their satisfaction, I shall be all that men honorably desire,—life, and health, and nourishment, and plenty, and glory, and honor, and peace, and all good things? This, too, is the right interpretation of the saying of the apostle, “That God may be all in all.” He shall be the end of our desires who shall be seen without end, loved without cloy, praised without weariness.
    ... St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430), The City of God, v. II, Marcus Dods, ed., as vol. 2 of The Works of Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Edinbugh: T & T Clark, 1871, XXII.30, p. 541 (see the book)
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, You are the sole object of our hope. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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