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The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine · 354

Saint Augustine's spiritual autobiography and confession addressed to God, recounting his journey from a life of sin and heretical belief through intellectual and spiritual struggle to Christian conversion and faith. Written in lyrical prose that blends self-analysis with theological reflection, it stands as one of the foundational texts of Western Christianity and human experience.

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

The restless soul finds no rest until it turns from scattered loves back to the God who made it.

Sex: Present
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

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faith-and-doubt

How shall I call upon my God? What room is there within me whither my God can come into me?
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Most highest, most good, most potent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present.
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There fix thy dwelling, trust there whatsoever thou hast thence, O my soul, at least now thou art tired out with vanities.
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shame

In the famous cry: 'Give me chastity, but not yet!' we see the force of the flesh in one who lived with so passionate a life.
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Nine years we lived seduced and seducing, deceived and deceiving, in divers lusts; openly by sciences, secretly with a false-named religion.
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self-and-identity

Wretched is every soul bound by the friendship of perishable things; he is torn asunder when he loses them.
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