quote became his most well-known sentence, though he added to it that unfortunately we cannot say that where our intellect ends faith begins. The unsurpassed classic formulation of the desiderium naturale comes from Augustine, in the opening paragraph of his famous Confession (1.1.1), which we quoted earlier: Man desires to praise thee, for he is a part of thy creation; he bears his mortality about with him and carries the evidence of his sin and the proof that thou dost resist the proud. Still he