God is more inward than yourself.

[Jash Comstock]

"When you wish to do something evil, you retire from the public into your house where no enemy may see you; from those places of your house which are open and visible to the eyes of men you remove yourself into your room; even in your room you fear some witness from another quarter; you retire into your heart, there you meditate: he is more inward than your heart.

Wherever, therefore, you shall have fled, there is he.

From yourself, whither will you flee? Will you not follow yourself wherever you shall flee? But since there is One more inward even than yourself, there is no place where you may flee from God angry but to God reconciled. There is no place at all whither you may flee. Will you flee from him? Flee unto him."

~ Herman Bavinck, The Doctrine of God.

 

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Amen and Amen

 

[CharlieJ]

Is that St. Augustine I hear?

Tu autem eras interior intimo meo et superior summo meo.

But you were more inward than my most inward place and higher than my highest. Conf. 3.6.11