Wednesday, November 20, 2013

St. Augustine: "He is Light itself"

“THE pursuit of God is the desire of beatitude, the attainment of God is beatitude. We pursue after him by loving Him, we attain to Him, not indeed by becoming What He is, but by coming close to Him, as it were, in some marvelous intellectual fashion, wholly illumined and wholly embraced by His holiness. For He is Light itself and by that Light are we permitted to be illumined.”

~St. Augustine: De Moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae, 18.

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