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Confessions (Augustine of Hippo)

A work by Augustine of Hippo

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  • What korrents draws from it

    People are made for God, and the human heart stays restless until it rests in God, Free curiosity does more for learning than frightening compulsion, Whoever loves friends and enemies in God loses no one dear, because God cannot be lost …

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  • Connections

    Augustine of Hippo

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Key facts

Edition korrents quotes
tr. E. B. Pusey, 18382
Claims on korrents
81

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. People are made for God, and the human heart stays restless until it rests in God (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Free curiosity does more for learning than frightening compulsion (opens korrents.com)1

  3. Whoever loves friends and enemies in God loses no one dear, because God cannot be lost (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Everything that exists is good, so evil is not a substance (opens korrents.com)1

  5. A will indulged becomes lust, lust served becomes habit, and habit unresisted becomes necessity (opens korrents.com)1

  6. A happy life is joy in the truth, which is joy in God (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Written by

  • Augustine of Hippo

Sources

  1. Confessions (tr. E. B. Pusey, 1838) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. Confessions (tr. E. B. Pusey, 1838) (gutenberg.org) (opens gutenberg.org)

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