Foundation for Reformed Theology

Greetings!

How shall we love God?

Augustine wrote:

Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so
      new,

late have I loved you!
Lo, you were within,
but I outside, seeking there for you,
and upon the shapely things you have made I
      rushed headlong,

I, misshapen.
You were with me, but I was not with you.
They held me back far from you,
those things which would have no being
were they not in you.
You called, shouted, broke through my deafness;
you flared, blazed, banished my blindness;
you lavished your fragrance, I gasped, and now
      I pant for you;

I tasted you, and I hunger and thirst;
you touched me, and I burned for your peace.

The Confessions, trans. by Maria Boulding, in The Works of St. Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, Part I-Books, volume 1 (New York: New City Press, 1997), X, 27, 38, p. 262.

So let us gladly love God.

Dr. James C. Goodloe IVGrace and Peace,

Dr. James C. Goodloe IV, Executive
    Director

Foundation for Reformed Theology

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Richmond, Virginia 23230

 

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