“Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our…”

Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.

Augustine of Hippo · Confessions · NPNF1 I, Confessions, Book I, chapter i, 1

The opening paragraph of the Confessions, and the sentence the whole book is written to explain: the restlessness is not a fault to be cured but the pull that made him write.

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These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.

The project holds the volume this row cites, NPNF series 1 vol. 1, and the build matches these words against its bytes at every rebuild. It is Pilkington’s rendering of cor nostrum inquietum est donec requiescat in Te.

Read in Pilkington, NPNF series 1 vol. 1 (1886) · J. G. Pilkington, M.A.

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