Augustine on Prayer
An extract from the book "Making room for others" written by Fr Paul Graham. O.S.A.First published in the Catholic Gazette (March 2000) 20-22, with the title ‘Praying with Saint Augustine’. ‘You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.’ These are perhaps the most famous words in Christian literature, apart from Scripture, and were written by St Augustine in North Africa, where he was a bishop, in the fourth century. The book in which the