I’m going to start a new mini-series putting up distinctive quotes from Augustine’s Confessions as I read through it. It is a beautiful book, written in his forties, as he looks back over his life. Much of the book reads like a prayer to God and quotes heavily from the Psalms. I hope you’ll enjoy some of this masterful writing as much as I am.
“Let the proud deride me, O God, and all whom you have not yet laid low and humiliated for the salvation of their souls; but let me still confess my sins to you for your honour and glory. Allow me, I beseech you, to trace again in memory my past deviations and to offer you a sacrifice of joy. Without you I am my own guide to the brink of perdition. And even when all is well with me, what am I but a creature suckled on your milk and feeding on yourself, the food that never perishes? And what is any man, if he is only man? Let the strong and mighty laugh at men like me: let us, the weak and poor, confess our sins to you.”