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



