17 August, 2022

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo-Book I-Chapter 17. He Continues on the Unhappy Method of Training Youth in Literary Subjects.

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  27. Bear with me, my God, while I speak a little of those talents You have bestowed upon me, and on what follies I wasted them. For a less...
16 August, 2022

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo-Book I-Chapter 16. He Disapproves of the Mode of Educating Youth, and He Points Out Why Wickedness is Attributed to the Gods by the Poets.

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  25. But woe unto you, you stream of human custom! Who shall stay on your course? How long shall it be before you are dried up? How long wi...
15 August, 2022

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo-Book I-Chapter 14. Why He Despised Greek Literature, and Easily Learned Latin.

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  23. But why, then, did I dislike Greek learning which was full of like tales? For Homer also was skilled in inventing similar stories, and...
14 August, 2022

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo-Book I-Chapter 12. Being Compelled, He Gave His Attention to Learning; But Fully Acknowledges that This Was the Work of God

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  19. But in this my childhood (which was far less dreaded for me than youth) I had no love of learning, and hated to be forced to it, yet w...
13 August, 2022

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo-Book I-Chapter 10. Through a Love of Ball-Playing and Shows, He Neglects His Studies and the Injunctions of His Parents.

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  16. And yet I erred, O Lord God, the Creator and Disposer of all things in Nature, — but of sin the Disposer only — I erred, O Lord my God...
12 August, 2022

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo-Book I-Chapter 8. That When a Boy He Learned to Speak, Not by Any Set Method, But from the Acts and Words of His Parents.

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  13. Did I not, then, growing out of the state of infancy, come to boyhood, or rather did it not come to me, and succeed to infancy? Nor di...
11 August, 2022

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo-Book I-Chapter 7. He Shows by Example that Even Infancy is Prone to Sin.

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  11. Hearken, O God! Alas for the sins of men! Man says this, and You have compassion on him; for You created him but did not create the si...
10 August, 2022

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo-Book I-Chapter 6. He Describes His Infancy and Lauds the Protection and Eternal Providence of God.

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  7. Still suffer me to speak before Your mercy — me, dust, and ashes. Genesis 18:27 Allow me to speak, for, behold, it is Your mercy I addr...
09 August, 2022

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo-Book I-Chapter 5. He Seeks Rest in God, and Pardon of His Sins

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  5. Oh! How shall I find rest in You? Who will send You into my heart to inebriate it, so that I may forget my woes, and embrace You my onl...
08 August, 2022

THE CONFESSIONS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE By Saint Augustine Bishop of Hippo-Book I-Chapter III Everywhere God Wholly Fills All Things, But Neither Heaven Nor Earth Contains Him.

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  Since, then, You fill heaven and earth, do they contain You? Or, as they contain You not, do You fill them, and yet there remains somethin...