Status Updates From Confissões - Santo Agostinho

My sin was this, that I looked for pleasure, beauty and truth not in him but in myself and his other creatures, and the search led me to pain, confusion, and error

“All I know is this, that unless you are with me, and not only beside me but in my very self, for me there is nothing but evil, and whatever riches I have, unless they are my God, they are only poverty.”