Thursday, April 26, 2007

 

Excerpt from Augustine's Confessions

(Edward Pusey translation)

Book V, Chapter II

On the Vanity of Those Who Wished to Escape the Omnipotent God.

They discourse many things truly concerning the creature; but Truth, Artificer of the creature, they seek not piously, and therefore find Him not; or if they find Him, knowing Him to be God, they glorify Him not as God, neither are thankful, but become vain in their imaginations, and profess themselves to be wise...

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