" What if we leaned on the rock instead of the sand? What if there was someone who gathered up all that is lost? What if there was a beloved who could never die, who loved you first, whose love called everything into existence and is therefore stronger than death? ... "Happy is the person who loves you," Augustine says, "and his friend in you, and his enemy because of you." Happiness is loving everyone and everything in God, the immortal one who holds all mortal creatures in his hand. When one loves in this way - in this "order," so to speak - then, "though left alone, he loses none dear to him; for all are dear in the one who cannot be lost. "

― James K.A. Smith , On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts