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Portrait of Augustine of Hippo Augustine of Hippo The Confessions of Saint Augustine…

And Thee would man praise, though but a fragment of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality, that bears about him the witness of his sin, even the witness that Thou "resistest the proud" (1 S. Pet. v. 5) ; yet would man praise Thee though but a fragment of Thy creation. Thou dost arouse us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it find rest in Thee.
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