“Thou wert more inward to me than my most inward part; and higher than my highest.”
Thou wert more inward to me than my most inward part; and higher than my highest.
Augustine of Hippo · Confessions · NPNF1 I, Confessions, Book III, chapter vi, 11
Written of the years he spent looking for God outside himself among the Manichees: the thing he was hunting through the world was nearer to him than he was to himself.
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Read in Pilkington, NPNF series 1 vol. 1 (1886) · J. G. Pilkington, M.A.
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