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You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
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The speaker says that human beings are made for the one being addressed, and that this gives life its deepest direction. “A restless heart” describes a lasting sense of dissatisfaction or incompleteness. According to the quote, that restlessness ends only when the heart finds rest in the one for whom it was made.
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