The Confessions 289Of Rest in God Who Ever Worketh, and Yet is Ever at Rest.

Augustine · The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series I Volume I: Prolegomena: St. Augustine's Life and Work, Confessions, Letters by Philip Schaff

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52. For even then shalt Thou so rest in us, as now Thou dost work in us; and thus shall that be Thy rest through us, as these are Thy works through us. But Thou, O Lord, ever workest, and art ever at rest. Nor seest Thou in time, nor movest Thou in time, nor restest Thou in time; and yet Thou makest the scenes of time, and the times themselves, and the rest which results from time.