Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"We are inflamed, by Thy Gift we are kindled; and are carried upwards; we glow inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that be in our heart, and sing a song of degrees; we glow inwardly with Thy fire, with Thy good fire, and we go; because we go upwards to the peace of Jerusalem: for gladdened was I in those who said unto me, We will go up to the house of the Lord. There hath Thy good pleasure placed us, that we may desire nothing else, but to abide there for ever."
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"We are inflamed, by Thy Gift we are kindled; and are carried upwards; we glow inwardly, and go forwards. We ascend Thy ways that be in our heart, and sing a song of degrees; we glow inwardly with Thy fire, with Thy good fire, and we go; because we go upwards to the peace of Jerusalem: for gladdened was I in those who said unto me, We will go up to the house of the Lord. There hath Thy good pleasure placed us, that we may desire nothing else, but to abide there for ever."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"Idling of our elders is called business; the idling of boys, though quite like it, is punished by those same elders, and no one pities either the boys or the men."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God:"
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"A sense of Deity is inscribed on every heart. Nay, even idolatry is ample evidence of this fact."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"He was not utterly unskilled in handling his own lack of training, and he refused to be rashly drawn into a controversy about those matters from which there would be no exit nor easy way of retreat. This was an additional ground for my pleasure. For the controlled modesty of a mind that admits limitations is more beautiful than the things I was anxious to know about."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
"How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity."
Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
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