 | William Bright - Church history - 1903 - 624 pages
...heart and soul in the service of Him who, in his own penetrating words, had "made them for Himself:" " Fecisti nos ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donee requiescat in te." We may, to some extent, appreciate the humble wish of the laborious Tillemont, at the end of his thick... | |
 | Henry Barclay Swete - 1903 - 200 pages
...; I will give you rest." It is the voice of the Onlybegotten Son ; we recall Augustine's words : " Fecisti nos ad Te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donee requiescat in Te." a 1 Matt. xi. 28-30. St. Luke has no parallel. * Confessions, i. 1. 3. Twice in the First Gospel l... | |
 | 1903 - 590 pages
...law of our being — so aptly expressed in the well-known words of St. Augustine : "Domine, fecisto nos ad Te; et inquietum est cor nostrum donee requiescat in Te" — " Lord, thou hast made us for Thee; and our hearts have no rest, till they rest in Thee." A man... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - Proverbs - 1904 - 500 pages
...Medmenham Abbey — middle of 18th century, — adopted from the words inscribed over the Abbey gates. 783. Fecisti nos ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donee requiescat in te. Aug. Conf. 1, 1 (vol. i. 49 A). — TluM hast made us for Thyself, and tlte heart is restless until... | |
 | Hermann Hering - Preaching - 1905 - 648 pages
...seiner Seele, deren Innerstes das bekannte Gebetswort im Eingang seiner Konfessionen ausspricht: Tu excitas, ut laudare te delectet; quia fecisti nos ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te. Nachdem diese Unruhe und damit das tiefste Bedürfen und Sehnen seiner Seele... | |
 | Hermann Schultz, Alfred Bull Nichols - Apologetics - 1905 - 354 pages
...are more than the world, the world bears witness to us of a power above the world, which rules it. Tu fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te (Augustine). We feel the compulsion to experience this world-controlling power in a life akin to our... | |
 | Francis Greenwood Peabody - Christian ethics - 1905 - 328 pages
...Jackson, " The Teaching of Jesus," 1903, IX ; " Concerning Righteousness." 1 " Confessions," I, I : " Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te." the heights of heaven without providing themselves with the necessities of earth. " Give me the luxuries... | |
 | Theology - 1906 - 604 pages
...the most impressive utterance in the great Epic poems. The famous saying of Augustine, ' ' Fecesti nos ad Te et inquietum est cor nostrum donee requiescat in Te," is quoted so often because it is felt to be so true. The Christian religion is a fact of experience,... | |
 | John Stephenson Rowntree - Society of Friends - 1908 - 494 pages
...the way of peace for which his soul was craving. He cannot have been happy in • Tu . . Domine . . fecisti nos ad Te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donee requiescat in Tc. (Con/. I. i.) the men he met with. They advised him to marry, to sing, to smoke tobacco. Whether... | |
 | William Warren Vernon - 1909 - 590 pages
...nei fioretti opimo, Si soprastando al lume intorno intorno * solo in lui vedere ha la sua pace : " Fecisti nos ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donee requiescat in te." (St. Aug. Confess, i, i.) "Dispone sì la creatura beata, che vede lo Creatore tanto quanto a lui piace... | |
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... fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te. 
