Book III
Sorry about the length of time between posts everyone. I know I held out the schedule as an absolute good, but maybe this just goes to show the depth of human depravity and the impossibility perfection...or at least my laziness. Could go either way.
Anyhow, on to Augustine and the later years of his teenage life!
One quote that fascinated me was the very first few sentences:
This seems like an echo of his statement at the beginning of the Confessions that "our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee" which is pretty much the theme of his entire confessions (or at least as much as I have read). This is made even more explicit a few lines later when he says "I was hungry, all for the want of that spiritual food which is Thyself, my God".
I came to Carthage, where a cauldron of illicit loves leapt and boiled about me. I was not yet in love, but I was in love with love, and from the very depth of my need hated myself for not more keenly feeling the need.
