Confessions
Augustine invented the spiritual autobiography — the story of a mind wrestling with sin, doubt, and conversion.
“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.”
Why It Matters
Augustine invented the spiritual autobiography — the story of a mind wrestling with sin, doubt, and conversion. His account of stealing pears as a teenager to explore the nature of evil is the first great moment of psychological self-analysis in Western literature. Every memoir about faith, addiction, or transformation is following a path Augustine cleared.
The 
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Personal reviewGuy battling with his philosophy. The autobiography parts were pretty heartfelt and the philosophy of time section was fantastic. Crazy influential, book, I had no idea how big a deal this guy was for Catholicism
Notable Quotes
“Give me chastity and continence — but not yet.”
“What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know. If I wish to explain it to someone who asks, I do not know.”
“Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new. Late have I loved you.”