| Esq. Alexander Knox - 1834 - 470 pàgines
...indigence, in a world so rich in external appointments, St. Augustine's solution alone accounts : " Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless till it resteth in thee." Our Redeemer, elsewhere, expressly adverts to this disease of the inner man, and... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1835 - 882 pàgines
...such a man wishes to praise tliee. 'Mum excitest him, that he should delight to praise thee. For tbou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless, till it rest in thee. Who shall give me to rest in thee ? who shall give me, that thou maycst come into uiy... | |
| 1836 - 446 pàgines
...carrying about him the evidences ef his sin, and a testimony, that thou resistest the proud : yet, even such a man wishes to praise thee. Thou excitest...us for thyself, and our heart is restless, till it rest in thee. Who shall give me to rest in thee ? who shall give me, that thou naayest come into my... | |
| Friedrich August G. Tholuck - 1836 - 334 pàgines
...shake off 'the golden bells' of our priestly vest, but we can never be stripped of the vest itself. " Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless till it rests in thee. With thee is perfect rest and an imperturbable life. He who enters into thee, enters... | |
| John West - 1842 - 310 pàgines
...true, that earth cannot make us happy ? — do you remember those words in Augustine's Confessions, " Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless till it resteth in Thee" Our Heavenly Father never intended that we should rest in the creature, that we should... | |
| Joseph Milner - 1847 - 642 pàgines
...propriety and importance of so long a detail will afterwards appear.* AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS ABRIDGED.t BOOK I. THOU art great, O Lord, and most worthy to...mayest come into my heart, and inebriate it, that I may 1 forget my own evils, and embrace thee, my only good ? What art thou to me ? Pity me, that I may speak.... | |
| August Tholuck - 1854 - 248 pàgines
...shake off 'the golden bells' of our priestly vest, but we can never be stripped of the vest itself. " Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless till it rests in thee. With thee is perfect rest and an imperturbable life. He who enters into thee, enters... | |
| Catherine Marsh - 1856 - 348 pàgines
...two or three bouquets in my room. One could hardly have more pleasant quarters." CHAPTER II, " Tnot; hast made us for THYSELF, and our heart is restless till it resteth in THEE." St. Augustine. THE 97th was ordered to Jamaica in 1848. From Maroon Town he thus... | |
| 1859 - 540 pàgines
...dissonance, and, springing to the embrace of the Infinite Goodness, echoes the cry of St. Augustine,— " Thou hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless till it resteth in thee!" Here we must close our remarks, although we have but touched the mere outline of... | |
| 1865 - 912 pàgines
...that charmed him. The keynote is found almost as soon as you sit down to its perusal : " Thou, 0 God, hast made us for thyself, and our heart is restless till it find repose in thee." The progress of mind, the development of soul, through sensuality, Manicheism, spiritual... | |
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