{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/101/1010036.htm","path":"chr/ecf/101/1010036.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/101/1010036.htm","text":"Chapter I.\u2014He Deplores the Wickedness of His Youth.\n1. I Will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul, not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love do I it, recalling, in the very bitterness of my remembrance, my most vicious ways, that Thou mayest grow sweet to me,\u2014Thou sweetness without deception! Thou sweetness happy and assured!\u2014and re-collecting myself out of that my dissipation, in which I was torn to pieces, while, turned away from Thee the One, I lost myself among many vanities. For I even longed in my youth formerly to be satisfied with worldly things, and I dared to grow wild again with various and shadowy loves; my form consumed away, 187 and I became corrupt in Thine eyes, pleasing myself, and eager to please in the eyes of men.","title":"Nicene and Post Nicene-Fathers, Vol. I: The Confessions: ...","type":"page"}