The Confessions Of Saint Augustine

[God, you] arouse [man] to take joy in praising you, for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

No other book has been recommended to me more than Saint Augustine’s Confessions. I bought it expecting a gripping tale of repentance, but instead encountered a philosophical tome addressed to God that I could only hardly understand, and the parts I could understand were overly emotive and coated in sentimentality. Nonetheless, I forged through the entire book...