Augustine The Confessions Quotes

#1. Why then should I be concerned for human readers to hear my confessions? It is not they who are going to 'heal my sicknesses' (Ps. 102: 3). The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

Augustine Of Hippo

#2. My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

James Mercer

#3. All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.

Anatole France

#4. I was a huge 'Deadwood' fan because I'm a huge David Milch fan, so I've always wanted to play something like Calamity Jane on 'Deadwood' and just be the biggest Western tomboy girl, ever.

Emily Rose

#5. Augustine's Confessions ... "What it is, therefore," he begins, "that goes on within the soul, since it takes greater delight if things that it loves are found or restored to it than if it had always possessed them?

Philip Yancey

#6. God in heaven will hear your prayers, and will answer them. He has never failed, if a man has been honest in his petitions and honest in his confessions. Let your faith beget patience. God is never in a hurry, said St. Augustine, because He has all eternity to work.

D.L. Moody

#7. History is never something carved in stone, but more like something saved to a temporary cache file on a computer disk vulnerable to the imperfections of memory and always ready to be revised.
The Confessions are Augustine's own first draft of history.

James O'Donnell

#8. It doesn't matter if she's deaf, he says, My aunty Demi can listen with her eyes, and whisper with her hands.

Chrissie Perry

#9. But the one counsel he did give me is something that I will not easily forget: There are many beautiful mystical books written by the Christians. You should read St. Augustine's Confessions, and The Imitation of Christ

Thomas Merton

#10. ... You conquer me.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Anatole France

#12. Let him love to find You while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find You.

Augustine Of Hippo

#13. I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.

Joyce Banda

#14. I want to go to Egypt and Japan and open orphanages ... a chain of them.

Lindsay Lohan

#15. But some things I didn't have to figure out. Some things hadn't changed, and some things never would.
Except me. I had changed, and I would give anything to change back.:

Kami Garcia

#16. He is Thy best servant who looks not so much to hear that from Whee which himself willeth, as rather to will that, which from Thee he heareth.

Augustine Of Hippo

#17. To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Augustine Of Hippo

#18. Just as truly as the Confessions are the autobiography of St. Augustine, The City of God is the autobiography of the Church written by the most Catholic of her great saints.

Augustine Of Hippo