Status Updates From St. Augustine Confessions

“I was destitute of her, and it was a pleasure to weep in your sight over her and for her, over myself and for myself. The tears that I had held back, I gave leave to flow as much as they wanted, spreading them out where my heart could see them; and I found rest in them, for in them were your ears - not the ears of some man, who might look on my weeping with con-tempt.“

“Without you, what am I to myself but a guide to my own self-destruction?” Pg. 52

Love pages 31-32 about Vice Imitates Virtue

Pg. 8: “So too let him rejoice and delight in finding you who are beyond discovery, rather than fail to find you by supposing you to be discoverable.”

Pg. 5: “Who will enable me to find rest in you? Who will grant me that you come to my heart and intoxicate it, so that I forget my evils and embrace my one and only good, yourself? What are you to me? Have mercy so that I may find words.”

His friend that died. "He was my other self. Someone has well said of his friend, 'He was half my soul.' I had felt that my soul and his soul were one soul in two bodies."

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