Claire’s Reviews > Confessions > Status Update

He's such a lil' overthinker...I never thought I would be calling Augustine a kindred spirit...yet here we are. ☺️

seriously, never felt so understood by almost anyone in the whole world.

"The tears flowed from me when I heard your hymns and canticles, for the sweet singing of your Church moved me deeply. The music surged in my ears, truth seeped into my heart, and my feelings of devotion overflowed, so that the tears streamed down. But they were tears of gladness." p.190 😭😭😭😭😭

stoooop 😭 I need to stop crying in public.

"I was dying a death that would bring me life...no more was required than an act of will...not some lame wish which I kept turning over and over in my mind"p.171

Teared up again in the coffee shop today. Thanks Augustine. He's just so real and honest and it genuinely speaks straight to my heart. So many moments where I think..."wait really? I thought I was the only one who felt that!" 🥹 Oh my gosh it's so cool that one day I could talk with him in heaven 🥺🥹

started on the problem of evil but he keeps going on side tangents 🫠😮‍💨

"Run on, for I shall hold you up. I shall lead you and carry you on to the end." p.132

"because I had certainly been both rash and impious in speaking, out in condemnation of a matter on which I ought to have taken better pains to be better informed"p.115

Okay well that's brutal...and relatable.

"It's plain language and simple style make it accessible to everyone, and yet it absorbs the attention of the learned." p.117

I pray that my love of God's Word grows in leaps and bounds daily.

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petitioning that Christian writers write like this again...

"I had my back to the light and my face was turned toward the things which it illumined, so that my eyes, by which I saw the things which stood in the light, themselves were darkness." p.88

I've never annotated a book so much in my life. I'm having to use multiple color highlighters and pens. I'm not including a quote cause there's too many.