Sean Conley’s Reviews > The Confessions of St. Augustine > Status Update

A lot of stuff about time that was cool but way over my head. Now we’re talking about creation. He’s had some really interesting interpretations that in some senses line up with modern science very well…and others that don’t, ha!

ALL OF BOOK 4 CHAPTER 12 IS SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WRITING IVE EVER READ! IDK WHAT THE LATIN SAYS, IM SURE ITS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE ENGLISH BUT THIS TRANSLATOR DESERVES AN AWARD! IT SHOULD BE REQUIRED READING FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!

“But our life came down here below. He bore our death and slew it, through the great abundance of his own life. And he thundered his voice calling us to return to him that secret place from whence he came to us, first into the Virgin’s womb (where he espoused human flesh, so that it might not be forever mortal) and from there coming forth like a bridegroom from his chamber and rejoiced…”

“To what end, therefore do you continue walking upon these difficult and took some paths? There is no rest to be found where you seek it. Seek what you seek, but it is not to be found where you look for it. You seek a blessed life in the land of death, and it is not to be found there. For how could a blessed life be found where life itself is not found?“

“The good that you love comes from him, but is is good and pleasant in relation to him, and if not, it will rightly become bitter, for anything that comes from him is loved unjustly if he is fork sake for its sakes. To what end, therefore do you continue walking upping these difficult and took some paths? There is no rest to be found where you seek it.”

“See he is found where truth is loved. He is within the heart itself, though the heart has strayed from him. Enter back into your heart, o sinners, and cling to him who fashioned you. Stand with him and you shall be secure. Rest in him and you shall find rest. Why are you wandering upping rough ways? Where?”

The Doctor of Grace is not disappointing! He looks back at his sins with the eyes of God. He looks at his wretchedness and doesn’t cave in on himself, but looks to God with thanksgiving for lifting him from the mire of his sin and asks God to show him what he was longing for in the stupidity of his sin. Makes me think about how I should look at myself and the dialogue I should have with the Lord.

“Hear, O God. Alas for man’s sin! This speaks man. And you have mercy on him, for you made him, though you did not make the sin that is in him.”

Super simple but I needed to hear it today