 | William Francis Henry King - 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 Schultz, Alfred Bull Nichols - 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 - 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... | |
 | 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 - 1908 - 496 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... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1911 - 312 pages
...amor.-—Intende =intenda. 127. Apprende, 'conceives of.' 128. Cf. St. Augustine, Confessions, I, i: 'Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te.' — Disira, ' he longs for it.' 130. In lui veder, ' to behold it.' 133. Altro ben e, 'there is a different... | |
 | Henry Wace, William Coleman Piercy - 1911 - 1052 pages
...religion. His was an experimental theism, a theism of the heart. The often quoted words, " Tu Domine fecisti nos ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donee requiescat in te " (Con/. I. i.), sum up his inmost personal experience. This is, above all, what Augustine found in... | |
 | William St. Clair Tisdall - 1912 - 260 pages
...the revelation itself is a fundamental error." (GWATKIN : Early Church Hist., vol. i., pp. 2, 3.) " Fecisti nos ad Te, et inquietum est cor nostrum donee requiescat in Te." (ST. AUGUSTINB.) EDITOR'S GENERAL PREFACE IN no branch of human knowledge has there been a more liyely... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1913 - 658 pages
...spirit of youth was never drowned in the stagnancy of age. History and poetry attracted Lyall, but his deepest interest lay in the nature and life of religion....tranquillising ritual. ' Vobis parta quies, nullum maris aequor arandum, Arva neque Ausoniae semper cedentia retro Quaerenda.' These Virgilian lines,... | |
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... fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donee requiescat in te. 
