It is necessary to be aware of the smallness of creatures and to hold as nought all created things, in order to love and know God who is uncreated. For this is the cause of our uneasy heart and soul; in this life we seek rest in those things that are so inadequate, which possess no rest. And we do not know our God who is almighty, all wise and all good and our true rest. God wills to be known, and it pleases him that we rest in him; for all that is beneath him is not sufficient for us. And this is why no soul finds rest until it counts all created things as nothing.
