"For Wherever the soul of man may turn, unless it turns to you, it clasps sorrow to itself. Even though it clings to things of beauty, if their beauty is outside God and outside the soul, it only clings to sorrow."
Augustine says in this rewarding section that everything that we would set our soul on for happiness but God will rise and set like the sun--that God created them to give joy, but He also created them to end in order that we would be taught to rest in Him alone, who never ends.
I can't do it justice, you'll have to read it for yourself! (if you can understand the ole english)
Read all the way from chapter 10 through 13.
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