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St. Augustine

By Suzan Sammons, Crisis Magazine, Jan. 19, 2026

Suzan Sammons is the author of The Stations of the Cross in Slow Motion: A Daily Devotion for Lent and The Jesse Tree: An Advent Devotion, both from Sophia Institute Press. She is the mother of seven, serves as an editor for several Catholic publications, and is a contributor to Catholic journals on topics including child-rearing and education, the dignity of the unborn, holistic health, and Catholic spirituality.

Everyone knows that St. Augustine speaks of “restless hearts,” but he also points the way to finding rest.

A few years before Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Fellowship of the Ring came out, I read the whole trilogy for the first time. Many striking aphorisms stuck with me afterwards, among them “Not all who wander are lost.”

Of course, the release of the films resulted in an enormous wave of interest in the story of The Ring, with the result that “Not all who wander are lost” started appearing on bumper stickers, Facebook pages, Christmas ornaments, you name it—which pretty much separated the original statement from nearly all its true pith. I found myself one night in a Target holding a pillow embroidered with the saying loudly explaining to my 10-year-old that a lot of people who wander actually are lost. ….