Today’s One-Liner (#272)

 Yet who can tell how many times each day our curiosity is tempted  by the most trivial and insignificant matters? –Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. Pine-Coffin

(Back to) Augustine

But there comes a time when we know that something is missing. And when this time comes, we need to know where to turn. Often, I will suggest, we should turn to Augustine himself. Without…

Today’s One-Liner (#179)

Anxiety about what I could  believe as certain gnawed at my heart all the more sharply as I grew  more and more ashamed that I had been misled and deluded by  promises of certainty for…