...you made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace until they rest in you.

Saint Augustine, Confessions

quoted in Colin Chapman, The Case for Christianity, Tring,Herts:Lion Publishing, 1981, p.44

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For one of the most profound ways in which the Lord touches us and teaches us about himself and his own essential otherness is through the very limits he has placed upon our relationships with one another. It is an enormous source of human frustration that our need for intimacy far outstrips its capacity to be met in other people. Primarily what keeps us separate is our sin, but there is also another factor, and that is that in each one of us the holiest and neediest and most sensitive place of all has been made and is reserved for God alone, so that only he can enter there. No one else can love us as he does, and no one can be the sort of friend to us that he is.

Mike Mason, The Mystery of Marriage, Portland,Oregon:Multnomah Press 1985, p.33