{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/101/1010158.htm","path":"chr/ecf/101/1010158.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/101/1010158.htm","text":"Chapter I.\u2014In God Alone is the Hope and Joy of Man.\n1. Let me know Thee, O Thou who knowest me; let me know Thee, as I am known. 813 O Thou strength of my soul, enter into it, and prepare it for Thyself, that Thou mayest have and hold it without \u201cspot or wrinkle.\u201d 814 This is my hope, \u201ctherefore have I spoken;\u201d 815 and in this hope do I rejoice, when I rejoice soberly. Other things of this life ought the less to be sorrowed for, the more they are sorrowed for; and ought the more to be sorrowed for, the less men do sorrow for them. For behold, \u201cThou desirest truth,\u201d 816 seeing that he who does it \u201ccometh to the light.\u201d 817 This wish I to do in confession in my heart before Thee, and in my writing before many witnesses.","title":"Nicene and Post Nicene-Fathers, Vol. I: The Confessions: ...","type":"page"}