The Confessions of St. Augustine Quotes

“I had prayed to you for chastity and said "give me chastity and continence, but not yet." For I was afraid that you would answer my prayer at once and cure me too soon of the disease of kust, which I wanted satisfied, not quelled.”
― Saint Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine: Enriched edition. Autobiography of a Christian Saint and Early Church Father

“I deserted truth for worldly things and the night closed over me, but even then, even in my darkness, I continued to love you, o Truth. I wandered away, but I remembered you. I heard your voice at my back, calling me to return, though I was scarcely able to hear it in the uproar raised by men who would not li e at peace with you.”
― Saint Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine: Enriched edition. Autobiography of a Christian Saint and Early Church Father

“The man who serves you best is the one who is less intent on hearing from you what he wills to hear from you than on shaping his will according to what he hears from you.”
― Saint Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine: Enriched edition. Autobiography of a Christian Saint and Early Church Father

“But you do not search out our faults ruthlessly, and because of this we hope and believe that one day we shall find a place with you. Yet if any man makes a list of his deserts, what would it be but a list of your gifts?”
― Saint Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine: Enriched edition. Autobiography of a Christian Saint and Early Church Father

“Our enemies can often correct our faults by their disparagement, just ad the flattery of friends can corrupt us.”
― Saint Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine: Enriched edition. Autobiography of a Christian Saint and Early Church Father