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anon49823460
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I love the quote by St. Augustine about, in us there is a God shaped void that only God can fill The only problem is I’m having trouble finding the exact quote, can anybody help? Thanks!
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Dauphin
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“God-shaped void”? That doesn’t sound like something St. Augustine would say (maybe I’m wrong…). Maybe this is the quote:I love the quote by St. Augustine about, in us there is a God shaped void that only God can fill The only problem is I’m having trouble finding the exact quote, can anybody help? Thanks!
"Nos fecisti ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te."
Translation:
“Thou hast made us for Thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee.”
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anon49823460
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I thought the quote was something like this…
"our lives have a God-shaped void which only God can fill satisfactory. "
"our lives have a God-shaped void which only God can fill satisfactory. "
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gelsbern
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You are thinking of Blaise Pascal
thinkexist.com/quotation/there_is_a_god_shaped_vacuum_in_the_heart_of/166425.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
thinkexist.com/quotation/there_is_a_god_shaped_vacuum_in_the_heart_of/166425.html
A hero to geeks like me because he invented what would be considered early computers (mechanical calculating machines) and is where the programming language Pascal got it’s name.“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
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anon49823460
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Thanks for clearing that up. Goes to show that you can’t believe everything that you read on the internet, I had originally got that misinformation from a daily reading on www.rc.net.
Blaise Pascal certainly was an interesting man. Wish they’d make a movie about him. And I do like the correct quote better,
“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus”
A vacuum (indicating) more of a drawing… a pull
Blaise Pascal certainly was an interesting man. Wish they’d make a movie about him. And I do like the correct quote better,
“There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus”
A vacuum (indicating) more of a drawing… a pull
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The_Cardinal
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That’s an awesome quote!
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Bespectacled
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That is a very good quote, but while we are on the subject of Pascal, I am curious, could he be considered Catholic? I know he adhered to Jansenism, a movement in the catholic church, which was declared heretical, but what would be the correct group to place him in?
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anon49823460
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Good question… I was wondering the same thingThat is a very good quote, but while we are on the subject of Pascal, I am curious, could he be considered Catholic? I know he adhered to Jansenism, a movement in the catholic church, which was declared heretical, but what would be the correct group to place him in?
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Machisen
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You might be interested in this page, which claims that the familiar quote is probably Pascal, but not the way Pascal actually put it. parablemania.ektopos.com/archives/2006/05/pascals_apocryp.html
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