the confessions of st augustine bishop of hippo

His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. “Look with pity, Lord, on these things, and deliver us who call upon Thee now deliver those too who call not on Thee yet, that they may call on Thee, and Thou mayest deliver them.Augustine of Hippo ( / ɔː ˈ ɡ ʌ s t ɪ n/ aw- GUST-in, US also / ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n/ AW-gə-steen Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. For Thou didst grant me Thy discipline, while I was learning vanities and my sin of delighting in those vanities Thou hast forgiven.” ( source)

For lo, O Lord, my King and my God, for Thy service be whatever useful thing my childhood learned for Thy service, that I speak, write, read, reckon. “Hear, Lord, my prayer let not my soul faint under Thy discipline, nor let me faint in confessing unto Thee all Thy mercies, whereby Thou hast drawn me out of all my most evil ways, that Thou mightest become a delight to me above all the allurements which I once pursued that I may most entirely love Thee, and clasp Thy hand with all my affections, and Thou mayest yet rescue me from every temptation, even unto the end. “But if I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me, where, I beseech Thee, O my God, where, Lord, or when, was I Thy servant guiltless? But, lo! that period I pass by and what have I now to do with that, of which I can recall no vestige?” ( source) “For I disobeyed, not from a better choice, but from love of play, loving the pride of victory in my contests, and to have my ears tickled with lying fables, that they might itch the more the same curiosity flashing from my eyes more and more, for the shows and games of my elders.” ( source)

“No doubt, then, that a free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement.” ( source)

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The confessions of st augustine bishop of hippo