Confessions

Augustine

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Book 1
He Proclaims the Greatness of G
That the God Whom We Invoke Is
Everywhere God Wholly Filleth A
The Majesty of God Is Supreme,
He Seeks Rest in God, and Pardo
He Describes His Infancy, and L
He Shows by Example That Even I
That When a Boy He Learned to S
Concerning the Hatred of Learni
Through a Love of Ball-Playing
Seized by Disease, His Mother B
Being Compelled, He Gave His At
He Delighted in Latin Studies a
Why He Despised Greek Literatur
He Entreats God, That Whatever
He Disapproves of the Mode of E
He Continues on the Unhappy Met
Men Desire to Observe the Rules
Book 2
He Deplores the Wickedness of H
Stricken with Exceeding Grief,
Concerning His Father, a Freema
He Commits Theft with His Compa
Concerning the Motives to Sin,
Why He Delighted in That Theft,
He Gives Thanks to God for the
In His Theft He Loved the Compa
It Was a Pleasure to Him Also t
With God There Is True Rest and
Book 3
Deluded by an Insane Love, He,
In Public Spectacles He Is Move
Not Even When at Church Does He
In the Nineteenth Year of His A
He Rejects the Sacred Scripture
Deceived by His Own Fault, He F
He Attacks the Doctrine of the
He Argues Against the Same as t
That the Judgment of God and Me
He Reproves the Triflings of th
He Refers to the Tears, and the
The Excellent Answer of the Bis
Book 4
Concerning That Most Unhappy Ti
He Teaches Rhetoric, the Only T
Not Even the Most Experienced M
Sorely Distressed by Weeping at
Why Weeping Is Pleasant to the
His Friend Being Snatched Away
Troubled by Restlessness and Gr
That His Grief Ceased by Time,
That the Love of a Human Being,
That All Things Exist That They
That Portions of the World Are
Love Is Not Condemned, But Love
Love Originates from Grace and
Concerning the Books Which He W
While Writing, Being Blinded by
He Very Easily Understood the L
Book 5
That It Becomes the Soul to Pra
On the Vanity of Those Who Wish
Having Heard Faustus, the Most
That the Knowledge of Terrestri
Of Manichaeus Pertinaciously Te
Faustus Was Indeed an Elegant S
Clearly Seeing the Fallacies of
He Sets Out for Rome, His Mothe
Being Attacked by Fever, He Is
When He Had Left the Manichaean
Helpidius Disputed Well Against
Professing Rhetoric at Rome, He
He Is Sent to Milan, That He, A
Having Heard the Bishop, He Per
Book 6
His Mother Having Followed Him'
She, on the Prohibition of Ambr
As Ambrose Was Occupied with Bu
He Recognises the Falsity of Hi
Faith Is the Basis of Human Lif
On the Source and Cause of True
He Leads to Reformation His Fri
The Same When at Rome, Being Le
Innocent Alypius, Being Apprehe
The Wonderful Integrity of Alyp
Being Troubled by His Grievous
Discussion with Alypius Concern
Being Urged by His Mother to Ta
The Design of Establishing a Co
He Dismisses One Mistress, and
The Fear of Death and Judgment
Book 7
He Regarded Not God Indeed Unde
The Disputation of Nebridius Ag
That the Cause of Evil Is the F
That God Is Not Corruptible, Wh
Questions Concerning the Origin
He Refutes the Divinations of t
He Is Severely Exercised as to
By God's Assistance He by Degre
He Compares the Doctrine of the
Divine Things Are the More Clea
That Creatures Are Mutable and
Whatever Things the Good God Ha
It Is Meet to Praise the Creato
Being Displeased with Some Part
Whatever Is, Owes Its Being to
Evil Arises Not from a Substanc
Above His Changeable Mind, He D
Jesus Christ, the Mediator, Is
He Does Not Yet Fully Understan
He Rejoices That He Proceeded f
What He Found in the Sacred Boo
Book 8
He, Now Given to Divine Things,
The Pious Old Man Rejoices That
That God and the Angels Rejoice
He Shows by the Example of Vict
Of the Causes Which Alienate Us
Pontitianus' Account of Antony,
He Deplores His Wretchedness, T
The Conversation with Alypius B
That the Mind Commandeth the Mi
He Refutes the Opinion of the M
In What Manner the Spirit Strug
Having Prayed to God, He Pours
Book 9
He Praises God, the Author of S
As His Lungs Were Affected, He
He Retires to the Villa of His
In the Country He Gives His Att
At the Recommendation of Ambros
He Is Baptized at Milan with Al
Of the Church Hymns Instituted
Of the Conversion of Evodius, a
He Describes the Praiseworthy H
A Conversation He Had with His
His Mother, Attacked by Fever,
How He Mourned His Dead Mother
He Entreats God for Her Sins, a
Book 10
In God Alone Is the Hope and Jo
That All Things Are Manifest to
He Who Confesseth Rightly Unto
That in His Confessions He May
That Man Knoweth Not Himself Wh
The Love of God, in His Nature
That God Is to Be Found Neither
Of the Nature and the Amazing P
Not Only Things, But Also Liter
Literature Is Not Introduced to
What It Is to Learn and to Thin
On the Recollection of Things M
Memory Retains All Things
Concerning the Manner in Which
In Memory There Are Also Images
The Privation of Memory Is Forg
God Cannot Be Attained Unto by
A Thing When Lost Could Not Be
What It Is to Remember
We Should Not Seek for God and
How a Happy Life May Be Retaine
A Happy Life Is to Rejoice in G
All Wish to Rejoice in the Trut
He Who Finds Truth, Finds God
He Is Glad That God Dwells in H
God Everywhere Answers Those Wh
He Grieves That He Was So Long
On the Misery of Human Life
All Hope Is in the Mercy of God
Of the Perverse Images of Dream
About to Speak of the Temptatio
Of the Charms of Perfumes Which
He Overcame the Pleasures of th
Of the Very Dangerous Alluremen
Another Kind of Temptation Is C
A Third Kind Is "Pride&quo
He Is Forcibly Goaded on by the
Vain-Glory Is the Highest Dange
Of the Vice of Those Who, While
The Only Safe Resting-Place for
Having Conquered His Triple Des
In What Manner Many Sought the
That Jesus Christ, at the Same
Book 11
By Confession He Desires to Sti
He Begs of God That Through the
He Begins from the Creation of
Heaven and Earth Cry Out That T
God Created the World Not from
He Did Not, However, Create It
By His Co-Eternal Word He Speak
That Word Itself Is the Beginni
Wisdom and the Beginning
The Rashness of Those Who Inqui
They Who Ask This Have Not as Y
What God Did Before the Creatio
Before the Times Created by God
Neither Time Past Nor Future, B
There Is Only a Moment of Prese
Time Can Only Be Perceived Or M
Nevertheless There Is Time Past
Past and Future Times Cannot Be
We Are Ignorant in What Manner
In What Manner Time May Properl
How Time May Be Measured
He Prays God That He Would Expl
That Time Is a Certain Extensio
That Time Is Not a Motion of a
He Calls on God to Enlighten Hi
We Measure Longer Events by Sho
Times Are Measured in Proportio
Time in the Human Mind, Which E
That Human Life Is a Distractio
Again He Refutes the Empty Ques
How the Knowledge of God Differ
Book 12
The Discovery of Truth Is Diffi
Of the Double Heaven,-the Visib
Of the Darkness Upon the Deep,
From the Formlessness of Matter
What May Have Been the Form of
He Confesses That at One Time H
Out of Nothing God Made Heaven
Heaven and Earth Were Made &quo
That the Heaven of Heavens Was
He Begs of God That He May Live
What May Be Discovered to Him b
From the Formless Earth God Cre
Of the Intellectual Heaven and
Of the Depth of the Sacred Scri
He Argues Against Adversaries C
He Wishes to Have No Intercours
He Mentions Five Explanations o
What Error Is Harmless in Sacre
He Enumerates the Things Concer
Of the Words, "in the Begi
Of the Explanation of the Words
He Discusses Whether Matter Was
Two Kinds of Disagreements in t
Out of the Many True Things, It
It Behoves Interpreters, When D
What He Might Have Asked of God
The Style of Speaking in the Bo
The Words, "in the Beginni
Concerning the Opinion of Those
In the Great Diversity of Opini
Moses Is Supposed to Have Perce
First, the Sense of the Writer
Book 13
He Calls Upon God, and Proposes
All Creatures Subsist from the
Genesis 1:3,-of "Light,&qu
All Things Have Been Created by
He Recognises the Trinity in th
Why the Holy Ghost Should Have
That the Holy Spirit Brings Us
That Nothing Whatever, Short of
Why the Holy Spirit Was Only &q
That Nothing Arose Save by the
That the Symbols of the Trinity
Allegorical Explanation of Gene
That the Renewal of Man Is Not
That Out of the Children of the
Allegorical Explanation of the
That No One But the Unchangeabl
Allegorical Explanation of the
Of the Lights and Stars of Heav
All Men Should Become Lights in
Concerning Reptiles and Flying
Concerning the Living Soul, Bir
He Explains the Divine Image (V
That to Have Power Over All Thi
Why God Has Blessed Men, Fishes
He Explains the Fruits of the E
In the Confessing of Benefits,
Many Are Ignorant as to This, a
He Proceeds to the Last Verse,
Although It Is Said Eight Times
He Refutes the Opinions of the
We Do Not See That It Was Good
Of the Particular Works of God,
The World Was Created by God Ou
He Briefly Repeats the Allegori
He Prays God for That Peace of
The Seventh Day, Without Evenin
Of Rest in God Who Ever Worketh
Of the Difference Between the K

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