St. Augustine, What Does it Mean to Pray is Secret?
Question 011. If God is transcendent and immanent, why are we enjoined to go into our private room and, with the door shut, pray to our Father who is in a secret place? …pour out your prayer where God alone sees, he who repays all…if you know what ‘your private room’ is and clean it, then pray to God there….If men are to reward you, pour out your prayer before men. If God is to [...]
St. Augustine, How is God Both Internal and External to Myself?
Question 010. So our prayer is a search for a transcendent yet immanent God? Without interruption or occupying space, with his immutable and exalted power, God is the most interior of all things, because all things exist in him. Further, he is the most external thing, because he is above them all. Thus... with his immutable eternity he is the oldest of all things and the first of all things; he is the newest, because [...]
St. Augustine, How May I Know this Light?
Question 009 What do I need to discover this Light? Love. He who knows the truth, knows what the light is; and he who knows it knows eternity. Love knows it. O Truth eternal and true love and beloved eternity, you are my God, for you I long night and day. from St. Augustine Answers 101 Questions on Prayer by Fr. Ermatinger. Charity is that which configures the human soul to perceive the divine [...]