Thus wrote St Augustine in his Confessions, one of the great spiritual autobiographies of the Christian Church. His conversion to Christianity came late after a lively youth, but when it took place it was intense and profoundly felt, and he rose rapidly to become a Bishop in the African Church. The Heart at Rest presents extracts from his major writings, including the Confessions and the City of God. In these he puts forth the faith of the Church with unequalled brilliance, charm and forcefulness. He was concerned with God’s love for us and our response, with what we can know of God and with what living the life to which God calls us means in practice. Augustine’s emphasis on the ultimately unsatisfying nature of worldly values in given added poignance by the accounts of his early life, his power of analyzing the emotional side of Christian experience in the face sin is unrivalled.