Various Church Fathers
With God There is True Rest and Life Unchanging.
The Confessions — translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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Chapter X.—With God There is True Rest and Life Unchanging.
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18. Who can unravel that twisted and tangled knottiness? It is foul. I hate to reflect on it. I hate to look on it. But thee do I long for, O righteousness and innocency, fair and comely to all virtuous eyes, and of a satisfaction that never palls! With thee is perfect rest, and life unchanging. He who enters into thee enters into the joy of his Lord, and shall have no fear, and shall do excellently in the most Excellent. I sank away from Thee, O my God, and I wandered too far from Thee, my stay, in my youth, and became to myself an unfruitful land.
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Translated by ANF/NPNF editors. Edition ccel.npnf101.division.vi.en.