Confessions Audiobook (Unabridged)

" I love the way that Augustine writes..he is very lucid and I can imagine myself besides him through all his struggles..His praise for God truely comes from the heart and I can identify with him when he says about the Creator "we do not know Him as we should" for all our understandings about him are colored by our own assumptions and as the Quran Majeed says " And there is none like unto Him". "

" Reading this again, perhaps for the tenth time. It gets better and more powerful with each encounter. Socrates may have insisted, "Know thyself." But no one took up the dread task with so much earnestness and persistence as Augustine, eight hundred years later. Here, we find the first great instance of a condition we now understood to be uniquely modern, infinite self-contradiction, as well as a correlative activity, interminable self-analysis. "

" I must confess, this book got a bit tedious for me at times, but there are some great gems that sparkle out and make it worth the work: his boyhood in Carthage as a reluctant scholar but lover of Dido; his youthful prayer, "Lord make me pure, but not yet"; his taking up the book to read and finding life and freedom at last. The section on memory is amazingly modern, and the section on time boggles the mind. This is a book I'm sure to read again. "

" The translation I read was King-James-English in style and it made it difficult to understand at times. But it was REALLY interesting. The theological thought after conversion was the most interesting to me. "

" A wonderful Christian classic, examine his life, but just glance at the doctrine. "

" Very impacting book on my spiritual development and understanding of sanctification. "

" I finally picked it up again after a lengthy hiatus. St. Augustine was a genius. His musings on time, memory, and signs are poetic, edifying, and fascinating. I don't know if I've ever read a book that communicates so powerfully what it would mean to have the sort of faith Augustine did. "

" A lovely introduction to St. Augustine's Confessions. "

" Great book of quotes. Read this in Western Civ at the University of Kansas "

" Augustin, Augustin, what a troubled soul you were. I really connect to his struggle for faith. I may not agree with his theology all the time, but i can respect the reasons and path that lead him to his beliefs. maybe he is stringent because of guilt and the need to atone for those sins... "

" Some parts hard to follow, some parts very inspirational. "

" Why do people feel the need to publish all of their deep dark thoughts and secrets? The LAST title I'd ever pick for a book is "confessions." "

" Probably one of the best books ever written, the entire book is a prayer to God in which Augustine describes his conversion to Christianity and his love for Christ. A must read book for anyone who wants to be cultured. "

" Very interesting read. What struck me about this was that the struggles that Augustine faced are very similar to the struggles we have today. "

" Far too dense and long. This 300 page book has about as much content as a normal 1000 page book, causing my brain to physically hurt after reading for an hour. The content itself is good, but it is too closely packed together to make the reading of it anywhere near an enjoyable experience. "

" My favorite book in all the world "

" I haven't finished this yet. I read a majority of it. There's a lot of really awesome stuff in here. That being said, it's probably the most difficult thing I've ever read. I hope to finish one day, but I'm not really currently reading this anymore. "

" I'm on my fourth read... "

" Another classic in Christian theology. I liked it a lot better than Calvin and Aquines mainly because it reads like a novel than just theological arguments. "