Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Chapter 8: Psalms 131–150

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with good things! How powerful is God, who has given life to each of the animals! How powerful is God, who has given different seeds to the womb of the earth, so various plants might spring up, such beautiful trees! How powerful, how great is God! Therefore if God is good, who has given you what you have, how much more blessed will you be when he has given you himself! You have desired all these things from him. I urge you: desire him also. For these things are not truly sweeter than he is, nor in any way are they to be compared to him. Those who prefer God to all the things they have received, in which they rejoice, call on him in truth (v. 18).