Confessions Book IX 9 Saint Augustine Peter Constantine translator Jesus Christ “brighter than any light” “I willed but what You willed” “all my bones say” “schooling themselves in deranged lying and legal insanity” “crazed assaults” “scrutinize my action, noting how near the holidays were as in the New Year 2021 goodbye 2020 Happy New Year “unwed chastity” Liveright 2018

Confessions Saint Augustine book eight section 12.29 Peter constantine tears “how long, how long? Even tomorrow and tomorrow? Why not right away? why cannot my baseness come to an end this instant? “ “a divine command that I open the Book and read the first line I found” “in a way that was much more precious and pure than she had sought in having grandchildren of my flesh” spirituality mysticism simran

Confessions book viii Augustine Saint Peter Constantine Liveright 2018 flow of habit “I had sounded very strange” “all my bones cried out for me to enter” “but arriving was nothing more than wanting to go” “battling the part that is clinging to the earth” “mobility in my limbs” “act now, the time to act is now” paramours

Confessions Augustine translated by Peter Constantine 2018 Liveright Victorinus the least of the poscasters Kabir Paul Christmas reading carnal or spiritual lust sleep a new translation

Confessions book viii Augustine Peter Constantine “I was now certain of Your eternal life but still saw it as if through a glass darkly” extreme devotion with worthy zeal quantitative linguistics Spanish wife “tightly fettered to womankind” “piety is wisdom” “seek not to seem wise, because they who claimed themselves wise become fools” Simplicianus Ambrose Platonists “submitting his forehead to the reproach of the cross” Victorinus “so is it walls that make Christians”

Confessions book vii Saint Augustine Translated by Peter Augustine corinthians 15:9 plotinus plato “the City as a bride” word made flesh “host of thoughts” “He who knows the truth knows what that light is” “the eye of the soul ... beheld the immutable light” 9.13 to end book 7 live right liveright norton a new translation 2018 hippo 354-430 spirituality christianity first autobiography world literature reading classics of mysticism

Confessions of Saint Augustine book vii translated by Peter Constantine God is a sponge the origin of evil “I might die without having found the truth” “governs the universe down to the falling leaves of trees?” Astrology twins wavering wishy-washy mind “master of my body” “my festering pride” “through inner prods You goaded me so I would be impatient for You to become certain to my inner eye” ‘the more books one reads, the stupider one becomes’ Mao page 563 Modern Times Paul Johnson

Confessions of Saint Augustine book 7 Peter Constantine “fluttering swarm harpies” emptiness void spacious nothing dumb prattlers Anarag Sagar Kabir source of evil Devil

Confessions Saint Augustine book vi wife? Marriage? alypius “birdlime of sensuality” “insatiable lust” carnal pleasure

Confessions Book VI 9.14 Saint Augustine Peter Constantine Alypius the silversmiths or tradesmith “when a man is to be judged, he must not be rashly condemned by another man” the lifelong friend “preferred gold to honesty” “most difficult questions” “how an ordered life is to be lived” “we have no time to read” “certain hours assigned for the health of the soul” “why do we hesitate to knock at the door that will open out to all else”? What to do in the afternoon selfless service after annihilation