{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/101/1010179.htm","path":"chr/ecf/101/1010179.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/101/1010179.htm","text":"Chapter XXII.\u2014A Happy Life is to Rejoice in God, and for God.\n32. Let it be far, O Lord,\u2014let it be far from the heart of Thy servant who confesseth unto Thee; let it be far from me to think myself happy, be the joy what it may. For there is a joy which is not granted to the \u201cwicked,\u201d 859 but to those who worship Thee thankfully, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And the happy life is this,\u2014to rejoice unto Thee, in Thee, and for Thee; this it is, and there is no other. 860 But those who think there is another follow after another joy, and that not the true one. Their will, however, is not turned away from some shadow of joy.\nSince \u201clife eternal is the supreme good,\u201d as he remarks in his De Civ. Dei, xix. 4. Compare also ibid. viii. sec. 8, where he argues that the highest good is God, and that he who loves Him is in the enjoyment of that good. See also note on the chief good, p. 75, above.","title":"Nicene and Post Nicene-Fathers, Vol. I: The Confessions: ...","type":"page"}