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The Confessions of St. Augustin In Thirteen Books

Chapter X.--With God There is True Rest and Life Unchanging.

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, ¹ 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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CAPUT X. In Deo omne bonum.

18. Quis exaperit istam tortuosissimam et implicatissimam nodositatem? Foeda est; nolo in eam intendere, nolo eam videre. Te volo, justitia et innocentia, pulchra et decora honestis luminibus, et insatiabili satietate. Quies est apud te valde, et vita imperturbabilis. Qui intrat in te, intrat in gaudium Domini sui ¹; et non timebit, et habebit se optime in optimo. Defluxi abs te ego, et erravi, Deus meus, nimis devius a stabilitate tua in adolescentia, et factus sum mihi regio egestatis.