Confessions (tr. E. B. Pusey, 1838)

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People are made for God, and the human heart stays restless until it rests in God

Their wordsThou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.

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People are made for God, and the human heart stays restless until it rests in God

Their wordsThou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.
Our reading
Free curiosity does more for learning than frightening compulsion

Their wordsNo doubt, then, that a free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement.
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Whoever loves friends and enemies in God loses no one dear, because God cannot be lost

Their wordsBlessed whoso loveth Thee, and his friend in Thee, and his enemy for Thee. For he alone loses none dear to him, to whom all are dear in Him who cannot be lost.
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Everything that exists is good, so evil is not a substance

Their wordsSo long therefore as they are, they are good: therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil then which I sought, whence it is, is not any substance: for were it a substance, it should be good.
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A will indulged becomes lust, lust served becomes habit, and habit unresisted becomes necessity

Their wordsFor of a forward will, was a lust made; and a lust served, became custom; and custom not resisted, became necessity.
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A happy life is joy in the truth, which is joy in God

Their wordsThey will as little hesitate to say "in the truth," as to say "that they desire to be happy," for a happy life is joy in the truth: for this is a joying in Thee, Who art the Truth, O God my light, health of my countenance, my God.
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Time is understood until one tries to explain it, yet without things passing, coming or being there would be no past, future or present

Their wordsIf no one asks me, I know: if I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not: yet I say boldly that I know, that if nothing passed away, time past were not; and if nothing were coming, a time to come were not; and if nothing were, time present were not.
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Past, present and future exist in some way in the soul, as memory, sight and expectation, and are not seen anywhere else

Their wordsFor these three do exist in some sort, in the soul, but otherwhere do I not see them; present of things past, memory; present of things present, sight; present of things future, expectation.

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