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enchir03 CHAPTER III GOD THE CREATOR OF ALL; AND THE GOODNESS OF ALL CREATION 9. Wherefore, when it is asked what we ought to believe in matters of religion, the…

enchir19 CHAPTER XIX ALMSGIVING AND FORGIVENESS 70. We must beware, however, lest anyone suppose that unspeakable crimes such as they commit who "will not possess the Kingdom of God" can…

conbk06 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK SIX CHAPTER I O Hope from my youth,1 where wast thou to me and where hadst thou gone away?2 For hadst thou not created me and…

enchir04 CHAPTER IV THE PROBLEM OF EVIL 12. All of nature, therefore, is good, since the Creator of all nature is supremely good. But nature is not supremely and immutably…

enchir20 CHAPTER XX SPIRITUAL ALMSGIVING 75. Now, surely, those who live in gross wickedness and take no care to correct their lives and habits, who yet, amid their crimes and…

conbk07 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK SEVEN CHAPTER I Dead now was that evil and shameful youth of mine, and I was passing into full manhood.1 As I increased in years, the…

enchir21 CHAPTER XXI PROBLEMS OF CASUISTRY 78. What sins are trivial and what are grave, however, is not for human but for divine judgment to determine. For we see that,…

conbk08 AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS BOOK EIGHT CHAPTER I O my God, let me remember with gratitude and confess to thee thy mercies toward me. Let my bones be bathed in thy…

enchir06 CHAPTER VI THE PROBLEM OF LYING 18. Here a most difficult and complex issue arises which I once dealt with in a large book, in response to the urgent…

enchir22 CHAPTER XXII THE TWO CAUSES OF SIN 81. I shall now mention what I have often discussed before in other places in my short treatises.185 We sin from two…