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"But Thee I long for, O Righteousness and Innocency, beautiful and comely to all pure eyes, and of a satisfaction unsating. With Thee is rest entire, and life imperturbable. Whoso enters into Thee, enters into the joy of his Lord: and shall not fear, and shall do excellently in the All-Excellent. I sank away from Thee, and I wandered, O my God, too much astray from Thee my stay, int these days of my youth, and I became myself a barren land."

 --taken from Great Christian Classics: Five Remarkable Narratives of the Faith. Published by Generatoins with Vision. p.32, Book II of The Confessions of St. Augustine