Status Updates From The Confessions: Saint Augu...

I must *confess* that I was mistaken in only rating this with 4 stars upon an earlier reading…

“Such crooked ways! Unhappy the audacious soul which hoped that by abandoning you it would find some better thing! It tossed and turned, upon back and side and belly- but the bed is hard, and you always be are rest” (Book 6)

“My God, let me remember with gratitude and confess to you your mercies toward me. Let my bones be bathed in your love and let them say, ‘Lord, who is like you?” (Book 8)

“Nothing is nearer to your ears than a confessing heart and a life grounded in faith.”

“Your intention was that I should seek delights unspoilt by disgust and that, in my quest where I could achieve this, I should discover it to be in nothing except you Lord, nothing but you.”