Augustine of Hippo

Now, you know, I think, not only the nature of your prayer but its object, and you have learned this, not from me but from him who has humbled himself to teach us all. Happiness is what we must seek and what we must ask of the Lord God. Many arguments have been fashioned by many men about the nature of happiness, but why should we turn to the many men or the many arguments? Brief and true is the word in the Scripture of God, "Happy is the people whose God is the Lord." "The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith," that we may belong to that people and that we may be able to attain to contemplation of God and to eternal life with God.