Questions

This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.

identifier	question
chapter-005	And how have they injured Thee?
chapter-005	And what, O Lord, was she with so many tears asking of Thee, but that Thou wouldest not suffer me to sail?
chapter-005	And where would have been those her so strong and unceasing prayers, unintermitting to Thee alone?
chapter-005	But what availed the utmost neatness of the cup- bearer to my thirst for a more precious draught?
chapter-005	But where was I, when I was seeking Thee?
chapter-005	But yet who bade that Manichaeus write on these things also, skill in which was no element of piety?
chapter-005	Doth then, O Lord God of truth, whoso knoweth these things, therefore please Thee?
chapter-005	For had I then parted hence, whither had I departed, but into fire and torments, such as my misdeeds deserved in the truth of Thy appointment?
chapter-005	For how should He, by the crucifixion of a phantasm, which I believed Him to be?
chapter-005	For whither fled they, when they fled from Thy presence?
chapter-005	Heal Thou all my bones, and let them say, O Lord, who is like unto Thee?
chapter-005	Is it not thus, as I recall it, O Lord my God, Thou judge of my conscience?
chapter-005	Or how shall we obtain salvation, but from Thy hand, re- making what it made?
chapter-005	Thou, by whose gift she was such?
chapter-005	or how have they disgraced Thy government, which, from the heaven to this lowest earth, is just and perfect?
chapter-005	or where dost not Thou find them?
chapter-006	Again, if he asked had I rather be such as he was, or what I then was?
chapter-006	Ambrose has no leisure; we have no leisure to read; where shall we find even the books?
chapter-006	And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man''s, who shall give you that which is your own?
chapter-006	BOOK VI O Thou, my hope from my youth, where wert Thou to me, and whither wert Thou gone?
chapter-006	But should any ask me, had I rather be merry or fearful?
chapter-006	But when then pay we court to our great friends, whose favour we need?
chapter-006	But where shall it be sought or when?
chapter-006	Hadst not Thou created me, and separated me from the beasts of the field, and fowls of the air?
chapter-006	I should choose to be myself, though worn with cares and fears; but out of wrong judgment; for, was it the truth?
chapter-006	Life is vain, death uncertain; if it steals upon us on a sudden, in what state shall we depart hence?
chapter-006	See, it is no great matter now to obtain some station, and then what should we more wish for?
chapter-006	The forenoons our scholars take up; what do we during the rest?
chapter-006	What glory, Lord?
chapter-006	What, if death itself cut off and end all care and feeling?
chapter-006	When compose what we may sell to scholars?
chapter-006	When refresh ourselves, unbending our minds from this intenseness of care?
chapter-006	Whence, or when procure them?
chapter-006	Wherefore delay then to abandon worldly hopes, and give ourselves wholly to seek after God and the blessed life?
chapter-006	Whom so soon as Alypius remembered, he told the architect: and he showing the hatchet to the boy, asked him"Whose that was?"
chapter-006	Why not this?
chapter-006	Why say more?
chapter-006	and shall we not rather suffer the punishment of this negligence?
chapter-006	and where shall we learn what here we have neglected?
chapter-006	from whom borrow them?
chapter-003	are they to be esteemed righteous who had many wives at once, and did kill men, and sacrifice living creatures?
chapter-003	is God bounded by a bodily shape, and has hairs and nails?
chapter-003	And who is sufficient for these things?
chapter-003	Are griefs then too loved?
chapter-003	But what foul offences can there be against Thee, who canst not be defiled?
chapter-003	But what sort of compassion is this for feigned and scenical passions?
chapter-003	But whither goes that vein?
chapter-003	Can it at any time or place be unjust to love God with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his mind; and his neighbour as himself?
chapter-003	For how much better are the fables of poets and grammarians than these snares?
chapter-003	How did I burn then, my God, how did I burn to re- mount from earthly things to Thee, nor knew I what Thou wouldest do with me?
chapter-003	Is justice therefore various or mutable?
chapter-003	My God, my Mercy, with how much gall didst Thou out of Thy great goodness besprinkle for me that sweetness?
chapter-003	My life being such, was it life, O my God?
chapter-003	Or whereas no man likes to be miserable, is he yet pleased to be merciful?
chapter-003	Shall compassion then be put away?
chapter-003	What is this but a miserable madness?
chapter-003	What marvel that an unhappy sheep, straying from Thy flock, and impatient of Thy keeping, I became infected with a foul disease?
chapter-003	What then could they be more truly called than"Subverters"?
chapter-003	Whence was this, but that Thine ears were towards her heart?
chapter-003	Where then wert Thou then to me, and how far from me?
chapter-003	Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no means suffer?
chapter-003	or what acts of violence against Thee, who canst not be harmed?
chapter-003	which because it can not be without passion, for this reason alone are passions loved?
chapter-003	whither flows it?
chapter-007	And I said,"Is Truth therefore nothing because it is not diffused through space finite or infinite?"
chapter-007	And what can be unlooked- for by Thee, Who knowest all things?
chapter-007	And what more monstrous than to affirm things to become better by losing all their good?
chapter-007	And what should we more say,"why that substance which God is should not be corruptible,"seeing if it were so, it should not be God?
chapter-007	But again I said, Who made me?
chapter-007	Did not my God, Who is not only good, but goodness itself?
chapter-007	Did the whole tumult of my soul, for which neither time nor utterance sufficed, reach them?
chapter-007	For where was that charity building upon the foundation of humility, which is Christ Jesus?
chapter-007	For, what was that which was thence through my tongue distilled into the ears of my most familiar friends?
chapter-007	Had He no might to turn and change the whole, so that no evil should remain in it, seeing He is All- mighty?
chapter-007	If the devil were the author, whence is that same devil?
chapter-007	Lastly, why would He make any thing at all of it, and not rather by the same All- mightiness cause it not to be at all?
chapter-007	No man sings there, Shall not my soul be submitted unto God?
chapter-007	Or hath it no being?
chapter-007	Or if it were from eternity, why suffered He it so to be for infinite spaces of times past, and was pleased so long after to make something out of it?
chapter-007	Or, could it then be against His will?
chapter-007	Or, was there some evil matter of which He made, and formed, and ordered it, yet left something in it which He did not convert into good?
chapter-007	These things being safe and immovably settled in my mind, I sought anxiously"whence was evil?"
chapter-007	What is its root, and what its seed?
chapter-007	What shall wretched man do?
chapter-007	Whence is evil?
chapter-007	Whence is it then?
chapter-007	Whence then came I to will evil and nill good, so that I am thus justly punished?
chapter-007	Where is evil then, and whence, and how crept it in hither?
chapter-007	Why so then?
chapter-007	Why that?
chapter-007	Why then fear we and avoid what is not?
chapter-007	or when should these books teach me it?
chapter-007	who set this in me, and ingrafted into me this plant of bitterness, seeing I was wholly formed by my most sweet God?
chapter-009	And the prophet cries out, How long, slow of heart?
chapter-009	And what is like unto Thy Word, our Lord, who endureth in Himself without becoming old, and maketh all things new?
chapter-009	And when shall I have time to rehearse all Thy great benefits towards us at that time, especially when hasting on to yet greater mercies?
chapter-009	And when shall that be?
chapter-009	And who but Thou could be the workmaster of such wonders?
chapter-009	But hast not Thou, O most merciful Lord, pardoned and remitted this sin also, with my other most horrible and deadly sins, in the holy water?
chapter-009	But what pain?
chapter-009	But whosoever reckons up his real merits to Thee, what reckons he up to Thee but Thine own gifts?
chapter-009	But yet, O my God, Who madest us, what comparison is there betwixt that honour that I paid to her, and her slavery for me?
chapter-009	For what other place is there for such a soul?
chapter-009	He cries out, How long?
chapter-009	Let my heart and my tongue praise Thee; yea, let all my bones say, O Lord, who is like unto Thee?
chapter-009	My God hath done this for me more abundantly, that I should now see thee withal, despising earthly happiness, become His servant: what do I here?"
chapter-009	Oh that they were wearied out with their famine, and said, Who will show us good things?
chapter-009	What evil have not been either my deeds, or if not my deeds, my words, or if not my words, my will?
chapter-009	When shall I recall all which passed in those holy- days?
chapter-009	When we shall all rise again, though we shall not all be changed?
chapter-009	Whence and whither hast Thou thus led my remembrance, that I should confess these things also unto Thee?
chapter-009	Where was then that discreet old woman, and that her earnest countermanding?
chapter-009	Who am I, and what am I?
chapter-009	Who repay Him the price wherewith He bought us, and so take us from Him?
chapter-009	Who shall restore to Him the innocent blood?
chapter-009	Would aught avail against a secret disease, if Thy healing hand, O Lord, watched not over us?
chapter-009	how didst Thou cure her?
chapter-009	how heal her?
chapter-009	or how went it away?
chapter-009	why do ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?
chapter-009	why do ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?
chapter-002	A man hath murdered another; why?
chapter-002	Ambition, what seeks it, but honours and glory?
chapter-002	And to what end?
chapter-002	And to what purpose?
chapter-002	And what was it that I delighted in, but to love, and be loved?
chapter-002	And whose but Thine were these words which by my mother, Thy faithful one, Thou sangest in my ears?
chapter-002	Anger seeks revenge: who revenges more justly than Thou?
chapter-002	Because none doth ordinarily laugh alone?
chapter-002	But art thou any thing, that thus I speak to thee?
chapter-002	But yet what was it?
chapter-002	Didst Thou then indeed hold Thy peace to me?
chapter-002	Envy disputes for excellency: what more excellent than Thou?
chapter-002	For what is nearer to Thine ears than a confessing heart, and a life of faith?
chapter-002	For what mortal can?
chapter-002	For what thief will abide a thief?
chapter-002	I loved then in it also the company of the accomplices, with whom I did it?
chapter-002	Or where but with Thee is unshaken safety?
chapter-002	The cruelty of the great would fain be feared; but who is to be feared but God alone, out of whose power what can be wrested or withdrawn?
chapter-002	To Thy grace I ascribe also whatsoever I have not done of evil; for what might I not have done, who even loved a sin for its own sake?
chapter-002	To whom tell I this?
chapter-002	What is it which hath come into my mind to enquire, and discuss, and consider?
chapter-002	What is worthy of dispraise but vice?
chapter-002	What is, in truth?
chapter-002	What shall I render unto the Lord, that, whilst my memory recalls these things, my soul is not affrighted at them?
chapter-002	What then did I love in that theft?
chapter-002	What then did wretched I so love in thee, thou theft of mine, thou deed of darkness, in that sixteenth year of my age?
chapter-002	What then was this feeling?
chapter-002	Who can disentangle that twisted and intricate knottiness?
chapter-002	Who can understand his errors?
chapter-002	Why then was my delight of such sort that I did it not alone?
chapter-002	Would any commit murder upon no cause, delighted simply in murdering?
chapter-002	Yea, sloth would fain be at rest; but what stable rest besides the Lord?
chapter-002	and dare I say that Thou heldest Thy peace, O my God, while I wandered further from Thee?
chapter-002	and wherein did I even corruptly and pervertedly imitate my Lord?
chapter-002	could I like what I might not, only because I might not?
chapter-002	in those things, of the remembrance whereof I am now ashamed?
chapter-002	when, or where, or whither, or by whom?
chapter-002	who can teach me, save He that enlighteneth my heart, and discovereth its dark corners?
chapter-002	who would believe it?
chapter-004	And doth not a soul, sighing after such fictions, commit fornication against Thee, trust in things unreal, and feed the wind?
chapter-004	And who is He but our God?
chapter-004	And who is this but our God, the God that made heaven and earth, and filleth them, because by filling them He created them?
chapter-004	And who leaveth Thee, whither goeth or whither fleeth he, but from Thee well- pleased, to Thee displeased?
chapter-004	But I would not be asked,"Why then doth God err?"
chapter-004	But didst Thou fail me even by that old man, or forbear to heal my soul?
chapter-004	But do I depart any whither?
chapter-004	But in these things is no place of repose; they abide not, they flee; and who can follow them with the senses of the flesh?
chapter-004	But is it also in grief for a thing lost, and the sorrow wherewith I was then overwhelmed?
chapter-004	But what did this further me, imagining that Thou, O Lord God, the Truth, wert a vast and bright body, and I a fragment of that body?
chapter-004	But what prouder, than for me with a strange madness to maintain myself to be that by nature which Thou art?
chapter-004	But what sort of man is any man, seeing he is but a man?
chapter-004	But what speak I of these things?
chapter-004	But whither ascend ye, when ye are on high, and set your mouth against the heavens?
chapter-004	Do I then love in a man, what I hate to be, who am a man?
chapter-004	Doth this sweeten it, that we hope Thou hearest?
chapter-004	Even now, after the descent of Life to you, will ye not ascend and live?
chapter-004	For how should there be a blessed life where life itself is not?
chapter-004	For what am I to myself without Thee, but a guide to mine own downfall?
chapter-004	For what else is it to feed the wind, but to feed them, that is by going astray to become their pleasure and derision?
chapter-004	For what profited me good abilities, not employed to good uses?
chapter-004	For where doth he not find Thy law in his own punishment?
chapter-004	For whither should my heart flee from my heart?
chapter-004	Hast Thou, although present every where, cast away our misery far from Thee?
chapter-004	May I learn from Thee, who art Truth, and approach the ear of my heart unto Thy mouth, that Thou mayest tell me why weeping is sweet to the miserable?
chapter-004	O ye sons of men, how long so slow of heart?
chapter-004	One is commended, and, unseen, he is loved: doth this love enter the heart of the hearer from the mouth of the commender?
chapter-004	Or is weeping indeed a bitter thing, and for very loathing of the things which we before enjoyed, does it then, when we shrink from them, please us?
chapter-004	To what end then would ye still and still walk these difficult and toilsome ways?
chapter-004	What did all this further me, seeing it even hindered me?
chapter-004	What diddest Thou then, my God, and how unsearchable is the abyss of Thy judgments?
chapter-004	What is it that attracts and wins us to the things we love?
chapter-004	What then is the beautiful?
chapter-004	Whence then is sweet fruit gathered from the bitterness of life, from groaning, tears, sighs, and complaints?
chapter-004	Where now are the impulses to such various and divers kinds of loves laid up in one soul?
chapter-004	Whither go ye in rough ways?
chapter-004	Whither go ye?
chapter-004	Whither not follow myself?
chapter-004	Whither should I flee from myself?
chapter-004	Who can recount all Thy praises, which he hath felt in his one self?
chapter-004	Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh?
chapter-004	Why, since we are equally men, do I love in another what, if I did not hate, I should not spurn and cast from myself?
chapter-004	and what is beauty?
chapter-004	or what am I even at the best, but an infant sucking the milk Thou givest, and feeding upon Thee, the food that perisheth not?
chapter-004	yea, who can grasp them, when they are hard by?
chapter-008	What ails us?
chapter-008	Where art thou now, my tongue? chapter-008 And she smiled on me with a persuasive mockery, as would she say,Canst not thou what these youths, what these maidens can?
chapter-008	And what was it which they suggested in that I said,"this or that,"what did they suggest, O my God?
chapter-008	And who has any right to speak against it, if just punishment follow the sinner?
chapter-008	And who there knew him not?
chapter-008	And, not indeed in these words, yet to this purpose, spake I much unto Thee: and Thou, O Lord, how long?
chapter-008	Are we ashamed to follow, because others are gone before, and not ashamed not even to follow?"
chapter-008	Can our hopes in court rise higher than to be the Emperor''s favourites?
chapter-008	Do not divers wills distract the mind, while he deliberates which he should rather choose?
chapter-008	For I ask them, is it good to take pleasure in reading the Apostle?
chapter-008	For his presence did not lessen my privacy; or how could he forsake me so disturbed?
chapter-008	For whence else is this hesitation between conflicting wills?
chapter-008	I exclaim:"what is it?
chapter-008	I sent up these sorrowful words: How long, how long,"to- morrow, and tomorrow?"
chapter-008	Is this their allotted measure?
chapter-008	Let my bones be bedewed with Thy love, and let them say unto Thee, Who is like unto Thee, O Lord?
chapter-008	The other, in banter, replied,"Do walls then make Christians?"
chapter-008	What means this, O Lord my God, whereas Thou art everlastingly joy to Thyself, and some things around Thee evermore rejoice in Thee?
chapter-008	What means this, that this portion of things thus ebbs and flows alternately displeased and reconciled?
chapter-008	What said I not against myself?
chapter-008	What then if all give equal pleasure, and all at once?
chapter-008	What then if one of us should deliberate, and amid the strife of his two wills be in a strait, whether he should go to the theatre or to our church?
chapter-008	What then takes place in the soul, when it is more delighted at finding or recovering the things it loves, than if it had ever had them?
chapter-008	Whence is this monstrousness?
chapter-008	Whence is this monstrousness?
chapter-008	Whence this monstrousness?
chapter-008	Who then should deliver me thus wretched from the body of this death, but Thy grace only, through Jesus Christ our Lord?
chapter-008	Why not now?
chapter-008	Why standest thou in thyself, and so standest not?
chapter-008	and by how many perils arrive we at a greater peril?
chapter-008	and from that moment shall not this or that be lawful for thee for ever?"
chapter-008	and from that moment shall we no more be with thee for ever?
chapter-008	and in this, what is there not brittle, and full of perils?
chapter-008	and to what end?
chapter-008	and to what end?
chapter-008	and to what end?
chapter-008	and when arrive we thither?
chapter-008	how long, Lord, wilt Thou be angry for ever?
chapter-008	or can they either in themselves, and not rather in the Lord their God?
chapter-008	or good to discourse on the Gospel?
chapter-008	or good to take pleasure in a sober Psalm?
chapter-008	what aim we at?
chapter-008	what heardest thou?
chapter-008	what serve we for?
chapter-008	why not is there this hour an end to my uncleanness?
chapter-008	would not these Manichees also be in a strait what to answer?
chapter-013	that it was idly said, and without meaning?
chapter-013	( for to such creatures, is this food due;) what is it that feeds thee?
chapter-013	And I am admonished,"Truly the things of God knoweth no one, but the Spirit of God: how then do we also know, what things are given us of God?"
chapter-013	And I said,"Lord, is not this Thy Scripture true, since Thou art true, and being Truth, hast set it forth?
chapter-013	And what have we, that we have not received of Thee?
chapter-013	And what man can teach man to understand this?
chapter-013	As if He had been in place, Who is not in place, of Whom only it is written, that He is Thy gift?
chapter-013	Behold, I too say, O my God, Where art Thou?
chapter-013	But how know we this?
chapter-013	But was not either the Father, or the Son, borne above the waters?
chapter-013	But what is this, and what kind of mystery?
chapter-013	But wherefore was it not meet that the knowledge of Him should be conveyed otherwise, than as being borne above?
chapter-013	For what did heaven and earth, which Thou madest in the Beginning, deserve of Thee?
chapter-013	For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of a man, which is in him?
chapter-013	For who discerneth us, but Thou?
chapter-013	How did corporeal matter deserve of Thee, to be even invisible and without form?
chapter-013	How did they deserve of Thee, to be even without form, since they had not been even this, but from Thee?
chapter-013	Or who, except Thou, our God, made for us that firmament of authority over us in Thy Divine Scripture?
chapter-013	Rejoiceth he for that?
chapter-013	To whom shall I speak this?
chapter-013	Unto it speaks my faith which Thou hast kindled to enlighten my feet in the night, Why art thou sad, O my soul, and why dost thou trouble me?
chapter-013	Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity?
chapter-013	What can be more, and yet what less like?
chapter-013	What then shall I say, O Truth my Light?
chapter-013	Whence then so many thorns, if the earth be fruitful?
chapter-013	Whereat then rejoicest thou, O great Paul?
chapter-013	Which of us comprehendeth the Almighty Trinity?
chapter-013	Who gathered the embittered together into one society?
chapter-013	Who, Lord, but Thou, saidst, Let the waters be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear, which thirsteth after Thee?
chapter-013	Why should he trouble me, as if I could enlighten any man that cometh into this world?
chapter-013	Why then is this said of Thy Spirit only, why is it said only of Him?
chapter-013	and yet which speaks not of It, if indeed it be It?
chapter-013	how speak it?
chapter-013	how speak of the weight of evil desires, downwards to the steep abyss; and how charity raises up again by Thy Spirit which was borne above the waters?
chapter-013	or what Angel, a man?
chapter-013	or what Angel, an Angel?
chapter-013	to whom shall I speak it?
chapter-013	whereat rejoicest thou?
chapter-013	who could any ways express it?
chapter-013	who would, any way, pronounce thereon rashly?
chapter-012	No,they say;"What then?
chapter-012	What then? chapter-012 What then?"
chapter-012	What will ye say then, O ye gainsayers? chapter-012 What?"
chapter-012	And this changeableness, what is it?
chapter-012	And what is it to have silence there, but to have no sound there?
chapter-012	And what, among all parts of the world can be found nearer to an absolute formlessness, than earth and deep?
chapter-012	Are these things false?"
chapter-012	But whence had it this degree of being, but from Thee, from Whom are all things, so far forth as they are?
chapter-012	For had there been light, where should it have been but by being over all, aloft, and enlightening?
chapter-012	For if they be comprised in this word earth; how then can formless matter be meant in that name of earth, when we see the waters so beautiful?
chapter-012	Hast not Thou, O Lord, taught his soul, which confesseth unto Thee?
chapter-012	How then should it be called, that it might be in some measure conveyed to those of duller mind, but by some ordinary word?
chapter-012	I should have desired verily, had I then been Moses( for we all come from the same lump, and what is man, saving that Thou art mindful of him?
chapter-012	If God be for us, who can be against us?
chapter-012	Is it body?
chapter-012	Is it false, that every nature already formed, or matter capable of form, is not, but from Him Who is supremely good, because He is supremely?"
chapter-012	Is it soul?
chapter-012	Is it that the matter was without form, in which because there was no form, there was no order?
chapter-012	Is it that which constituteth soul or body?
chapter-012	The heaven of heavens are the Lord''s; but the earth hath He given to the children of men?
chapter-012	Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, that darkness was upon the face of the deep; what else than the absence of light?
chapter-012	These be Thine own promises: and who need fear to be deceived, when the Truth promiseth?
chapter-012	We hold the promise, who shall make it null?
chapter-012	What strength of ours, yea what ages would suffice for all Thy books in this manner?
chapter-012	Where is that heaven which we see not, to which all this which we see is earth?
chapter-012	Where then light was not, what was the presence of darkness, but the absence of light?
chapter-012	and what Thy days, but Thy eternity, as Thy years which fail not, because Thou art ever the same?
chapter-012	if she now seeks of Thee one thing, and desireth it, that she may dwell in Thy house all the days of her life( and what is her life, but Thou?
chapter-001	And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself?
chapter-001	And is this the innocence of boyhood?
chapter-001	And is, then one part of Thee greater, another less?
chapter-001	And then mark how he excites himself to lust as by celestial authority:"And what God?
chapter-001	And what could I so ill endure, or, when I detected it, upbraided I so fiercely, as that I was doing to others?
chapter-001	And what had I now said, my God, my life, my holy joy?
chapter-001	And whither, when the heaven and the earth are filled, pourest Thou forth the remainder of Thyself?
chapter-001	And yet whence was this too, but from the sin and vanity of this life, because I was flesh, and a breath that passeth away and cometh not again?
chapter-001	Before them what more foul than I was already, displeasing even such as myself?
chapter-001	But Thou who fillest all things, fillest Thou them with Thy whole self?
chapter-001	But who shall cleanse it?
chapter-001	But why did I so much hate the Greek, which I studied as a boy?
chapter-001	Did not I read in thee of Jove the thunderer and the adulterer?
chapter-001	Do the heaven and earth then contain Thee, since Thou fillest them?
chapter-001	Dost Thou mock me for asking this, and bid me praise Thee and acknowledge Thee, for that I do know?
chapter-001	For what would I say, O Lord my God, but that I know not whence I came into this dying life( shall I call it?)
chapter-001	For who is Lord but the Lord?
chapter-001	Grant me, Lord, to know and understand which is first, to call on Thee or to praise Thee?
chapter-001	Have I not confessed against myself my transgressions unto Thee, and Thou, my God, hast forgiven the iniquity of my heart?
chapter-001	I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred?
chapter-001	If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides,"Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?"
chapter-001	If, again, I should ask which might be forgotten with least detriment to the concerns of life, reading and writing or these poetic fictions?
chapter-001	In so small a creature, what was not wonderful, not admirable?
chapter-001	Is it then a slight woe to love Thee not?
chapter-001	Let him also rejoice and say, What thing is this?
chapter-001	Nor did that depart,--(for whither went it?)
chapter-001	Or was it then good, even for a while, to cry for what, if given, would hurt?
chapter-001	Or what am I to Thee that Thou demandest my love, and, if I give it not, art wroth with me, and threatenest me with grievous woes?
chapter-001	Or, is it rather, that we call on Thee that we may know Thee?
chapter-001	Say, Lord, to me, Thy suppliant; say, all- pitying, to me, Thy pitiable one; say, did my infancy succeed another age of mine that died before it?
chapter-001	Shall any be his own artificer?
chapter-001	Since, then, I too exist, why do I seek that Thou shouldest enter into me, who were not, wert Thou not in me?
chapter-001	Therefore I contend not in judgment with Thee; for if Thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall abide it?
chapter-001	Thou receivest over and above, that Thou mayest owe; and who hath aught that is not Thine?
chapter-001	What art Thou then, my God?
chapter-001	What art Thou to me?
chapter-001	What is it to me, O my true life, my God, that my declamation was applauded above so many of my own age and class?
chapter-001	What is it to me, though any comprehend not this?
chapter-001	What then was my sin?
chapter-001	Whence could such a being be, save from Thee, Lord?
chapter-001	Whither do I call Thee, since I am in Thee?
chapter-001	Who knows not this?
chapter-001	Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy?
chapter-001	Who remindeth me?
chapter-001	Who shall stand against thee?
chapter-001	Why then did I hate the Greek classics, which have the like tales?
chapter-001	Why?
chapter-001	Wilt Thou hold Thy peace for ever?
chapter-001	and all at once the same part?
chapter-001	and was there nothing else whereon to exercise my wit and tongue?
chapter-001	and what before that life again, O God my joy, was I any where or any body?
chapter-001	and what else did he who beat me?
chapter-001	and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me?
chapter-001	and, again, to know Thee or to call on Thee?
chapter-001	bitterly to resent, that persons free, and its own elders, yea, the very authors of its birth, served it not?
chapter-001	but how shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed?
chapter-001	do then heaven and earth, which Thou hast made, and wherein Thou hast made me, contain Thee?
chapter-001	doth not each little infant, in whom I see what of myself I remember not?
chapter-001	for of that I have heard somewhat, and have myself seen women with child?
chapter-001	for who can call on Thee, not knowing Thee?
chapter-001	how long roll the sons of Eve into that huge and hideous ocean, which even they scarcely overpass who climb the cross?
chapter-001	how long shalt thou not be dried up?
chapter-001	is not all this smoke and wind?
chapter-001	is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain Thee?
chapter-001	or can there elsewhere be derived any vein, which may stream essence and life into us, save from thee, O Lord, in whom essence and life are one?
chapter-001	or dost Thou fill them and yet overflow, since they do not contain Thee?
chapter-001	or each its own part, the greater more, the smaller less?
chapter-001	or hast Thou no need that aught contain Thee, who containest all things, since what Thou fillest Thou fillest by containing it?
chapter-001	or how shall they believe without a preacher?
chapter-001	or to whom should I cry, save Thee?
chapter-001	or was it not laid loose?
chapter-001	or what saith any man when he speaks of Thee?
chapter-001	or whence canst Thou enter into me?
chapter-001	or who is God save our God?
chapter-001	or, art Thou wholly every where, while nothing contains Thee wholly?
chapter-001	or, because nothing which exists could exist without Thee, doth therefore whatever exists contain Thee?
chapter-001	or, since all things can not contain Thee wholly, do they contain part of Thee?
chapter-001	that many besides, wiser than it, obeyed not the nod of its good pleasure?
chapter-001	that period I pass by; and what have I now to do with that, of which I can recall no vestige?
chapter-001	to do its best to strike and hurt, because commands were not obeyed, which had been obeyed to its hurt?
chapter-001	was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin?
chapter-001	was it that I hung upon the breast and cried?
chapter-001	was it that which I spent within my mother''s womb?
chapter-001	what, but the Lord God?
chapter-001	whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth?
chapter-001	who does not foresee what all must answer who have not wholly forgotten themselves?
chapter-001	who, if worsted in some trifling discussion with his fellow- tutor, was more embittered and jealous than I when beaten at ball by a play- fellow?
chapter-011	And if any should ask me,"How knowest thou?"
chapter-011	And that very long one do I measure as present, seeing I measure it not till it be ended?
chapter-011	And whence should he be able to do this, unless Thou hadst made that mind?
chapter-011	And whence should they be, hadst not Thou appointed them?
chapter-011	And who denies past things to be now no longer?
chapter-011	And who denieth the present time hath no space, because it passeth away in a moment?
chapter-011	Are an hundred years, when present, a long time?
chapter-011	BOOK XI Lord, since eternity is Thine, art Thou ignorant of what I say to Thee?
chapter-011	But do I perceive it, or seem to perceive it?
chapter-011	But how didst Thou make the heaven and the earth?
chapter-011	But how didst Thou speak?
chapter-011	But how dost Thou make them?
chapter-011	But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not?
chapter-011	But if before heaven and earth there was no time, why is it demanded, what Thou then didst?
chapter-011	But if the will of God has been from eternity that the creature should be, why was not the creature also from eternity?"
chapter-011	But in what sense is that long or short, which is not?
chapter-011	But time present how do we measure, seeing it hath no space?
chapter-011	But we measure times as they are passing, by perceiving them; but past, which now are not, or the future, which are not yet, who can measure?
chapter-011	But what in discourse do we mention more familiarly and knowingly, than time?
chapter-011	But whence should I know, whether he spake truth?
chapter-011	But whence, by what way, and whither passes it while it is a measuring?
chapter-011	By what Word then didst Thou speak, that a body might be made, whereby these words again might be made?
chapter-011	By what way dost Thou, to whom nothing is to come, teach things to come; or rather of the future, dost teach things present?
chapter-011	Can my hand do this, or the hand of my mouth by speech bring about a thing so great?
chapter-011	Could it be measured the rather, for that?
chapter-011	Do I then measure, O my God, and know not what I measure?
chapter-011	Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?
chapter-011	Dost Thou bid me assent, if any define time to be"motion of a body?"
chapter-011	For if He made, what did He make but a creature?
chapter-011	For if Thine ears be not with us in the depths also, whither shall we go?
chapter-011	For if( say they) He were unemployed and wrought not, why does He not also henceforth, and for ever, as He did heretofore?
chapter-011	For that past time which was long, was it long when it was now past, or when it was yet present?
chapter-011	For what is time?
chapter-011	For what is, but because Thou art?
chapter-011	For what, I beseech Thee, O my God, do I measure, when I say, either indefinitely"this is a longer time than that,"or definitely"this is double that"?
chapter-011	For when a body is moved, I by time measure, how long it moveth, from the time it began to move until it left off?
chapter-011	For whence could innumerable ages pass by, which Thou madest not, Thou the Author and Creator of all ages?
chapter-011	For whence shouldest Thou have this, which Thou hadst not made, thereof to make any thing?
chapter-011	For where did they, who foretold things to come, see them, if as yet they be not?
chapter-011	For why should not the motions of all bodies rather be times?
chapter-011	How may it then be measured?
chapter-011	How then know I this, seeing I know not what time is?
chapter-011	I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not measure?
chapter-011	In the future, whence it passeth through?
chapter-011	In the way that the voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son?
chapter-011	In what space then do we measure time passing?
chapter-011	Is it to come?
chapter-011	Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us,"What was God doing before He made heaven and earth?
chapter-011	O my Lord, my Light, shall not here also Thy Truth mock at man?
chapter-011	Or in the present, by which it passes?
chapter-011	Or, should there in our words be some syllables short, others long, but because those sounded in a shorter time, these in a longer?
chapter-011	Or, while we were saying this, should we not also be speaking in time?
chapter-011	Or,"How came it into His mind to make any thing, having never before made any thing?"
chapter-011	See, I answer him that asketh,"What did God before He made heaven and earth?"
chapter-011	Seeing then Thou art the Creator of all times, if any time was before Thou madest heaven and earth, why say they that Thou didst forego working?
chapter-011	This same time then, how do I measure?
chapter-011	This then that He is said"never to have made"; what else is it to say, than"in''no time''to have made?"
chapter-011	Those two times then, past and to come, how are they, seeing the past now is not, and that to come is not yet?
chapter-011	Thou then, Ruler of Thy creation, by what way dost Thou teach souls things to come?
chapter-011	Times passing, not past?
chapter-011	What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle?
chapter-011	What then do I measure?
chapter-011	What then is it I measure?
chapter-011	What then is time?
chapter-011	What when we measure silence, and say that this silence hath held as long time as did that voice?
chapter-011	What wilt thou answer me?
chapter-011	When therefore will it be?
chapter-011	Whence it seemed to me, that time is nothing else than protraction; but of what, I know not; and I marvel, if it be not of the mind itself?
chapter-011	Where then is the time, which we may call long?
chapter-011	Which way, but through the present?
chapter-011	Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it?
chapter-011	Who can readily and briefly explain this?
chapter-011	Who declare it?
chapter-011	Who now teacheth us, but the unchangeable Truth?
chapter-011	Who shall comprehend?
chapter-011	Who therefore denieth, that things to come are not as yet?
chapter-011	Whom shall I enquire of concerning these things?
chapter-011	Why then do I lay in order before Thee so many relations?
chapter-011	Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God?
chapter-011	Yea, and if I knew this also, should I know it from him?
chapter-011	Yet what do we measure, if not time in some space?
chapter-011	and what the engine of Thy so mighty fabric?
chapter-011	but no space, we do not measure: or in the past, to which it passes?
chapter-011	do we by a shorter time measure a longer, as by the space of a cubit, the space of a rood?
chapter-011	how, O God, didst Thou make heaven and earth?
chapter-011	or dost Thou see in time, what passeth in time?
chapter-011	or how should they pass by, if they never were?
chapter-011	or how that past increased, which is now no longer, save that in the mind which enacteth this, there be three things done?
chapter-011	or is it perchance that I know not how to express what I know?
chapter-011	or what times should there be, which were not made by Thee?
chapter-011	whence, but from the future?
chapter-011	where is the short syllable by which I measure?
chapter-011	where the long which I measure?
chapter-011	whither cry?
chapter-011	whither, but into the past?
chapter-010	Is that it?
chapter-010	Am I not then myself, O Lord my God?
chapter-010	Am I then doubtful of myself in this matter?
chapter-010	And I turned myself unto myself, and said to myself,"Who art thou?"
chapter-010	And from Thee, O Lord, unto whose eyes the abyss of man''s conscience is naked, what could be hidden in me though I would not confess it?
chapter-010	And how shall I find Thee, if I remember Thee not?
chapter-010	And what is this?
chapter-010	And whence does that present itself, but out of the memory itself?
chapter-010	And whence is it that often even in sleep we resist, and mindful of our purpose, and abiding most chastely in it, yield no assent to such enticements?
chapter-010	And where do I recognise it, but in the memory itself?
chapter-010	And where shall I find Thee?
chapter-010	And where should that be, which it containeth not of itself?
chapter-010	And who is he, O Lord, who is not some whit transported beyond the limits of necessity?
chapter-010	And why seek I now in what place thereof Thou dwellest, as if there were places therein?
chapter-010	As then we remember joy?
chapter-010	As we remember eloquence then?
chapter-010	As we remember numbers then?
chapter-010	But for what fruit would they hear this?
chapter-010	But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it?
chapter-010	But now when I hear that there be three kinds of questions,"Whether the thing be?
chapter-010	But what do I love, when I love Thee?
chapter-010	But what is forgetfulness, but the privation of memory?
chapter-010	But what is nearer to me than myself?
chapter-010	But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget and seek that we may recollect?
chapter-010	But when it was present, how did it write its image in the memory, seeing that forgetfulness by its presence effaces even what it finds already noted?
chapter-010	But where in my memory residest Thou, O Lord, where residest Thou there?
chapter-010	But whether by images or no, who can readily say?
chapter-010	But why doth"truth generate hatred,"and the man of Thine, preaching the truth, become an enemy to them?
chapter-010	By remembrance, as though I had forgotten it, remembering that I had forgotten it?
chapter-010	By which of these ought I to seek my God?
chapter-010	Do they desire to joy with me, when they hear how near, by Thy gift, I approach unto Thee?
chapter-010	Does the memory perchance not belong to the mind?
chapter-010	For I ask any one, had he rather joy in truth, or in falsehood?
chapter-010	For then I ask myself how much more or less troublesome it is to me not to have them?
chapter-010	For what is it to hear from Thee of themselves, but to know themselves?
chapter-010	For what pleasure hath it, to see in a mangled carcase what will make you shudder?
chapter-010	For what shall I say, when it is clear to me that I remember forgetfulness?
chapter-010	For when it was found, whence should she know whether it were the same, unless she remembered it?
chapter-010	For who would willingly speak thereof, if so oft as we name grief or fear, we should be compelled to be sad or fearful?
chapter-010	For with a wounded heart have I beheld Thy brightness, and stricken back I said,"Who can attain thither?
chapter-010	How can I say that the image of forgetfulness is retained by my memory, not forgetfulness itself, when I remember it?
chapter-010	How seek I it?
chapter-010	How then do I seek Thee, O Lord?
chapter-010	How then do I seek a happy life, seeing I have it not, until I can say, where I ought to say it,"It is enough"?
chapter-010	How then is it present that I remember it, since when present I can not remember?
chapter-010	I remember to have sought and found many a thing; and this I thereby know, that when I was seeking any of them, and was asked,"Is this it?"
chapter-010	If in my praise I am moved with the good of my neighbour, why am I less moved if another be unjustly dispraised than if it be myself?
chapter-010	Is it also present to itself by its image, and not by itself?
chapter-010	Is it clasped up with the eyes?
chapter-010	Is it without it, and not within?
chapter-010	Is not the life of man upon earth all trial: without any interval?
chapter-010	Is not the life of man upon earth all trial?
chapter-010	Is not this corporeal figure apparent to all whose senses are perfect?
chapter-010	Is the comparison unlike in this, because not in all respects like?
chapter-010	Is the thing different, because they are but small creatures?
chapter-010	Know I not this also?
chapter-010	Known therefore it is to all, for they with one voice be asked,"would they be happy?"
chapter-010	Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount?
chapter-010	Or, desiring to learn it as a thing unknown, either never having known, or so forgotten it, as not even to remember that I had forgotten it?
chapter-010	Shall I say that that is not in my memory, which I remember?
chapter-010	To wish, namely, to be feared and loved of men, for no other end, but that we may have a joy therein which is no joy?
chapter-010	What am I then, O my God?
chapter-010	What greater madness can be said or thought of?
chapter-010	What middle place is there betwixt these two, where the life of man is not all trial?
chapter-010	What nature am I?
chapter-010	What sayest Thou to me?
chapter-010	What shall I do then, O Thou my true life, my God?
chapter-010	What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord?
chapter-010	What then do I love, when I love my God?
chapter-010	What third way is there?
chapter-010	What, but that I am delighted with praise, but with truth itself, more than with praise?
chapter-010	What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name?
chapter-010	What, when sitting at home, a lizard catching flies, or a spider entangling them rushing into her nets, oft- times takes my attention?
chapter-010	Whence and how entered these things into my memory?
chapter-010	Where in the end do we search, but in the memory itself?
chapter-010	Where is reason then, which, awake, resisteth such suggestions?
chapter-010	Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, and love, and long for it?
chapter-010	Where then did I find Thee, that I might learn Thee, but in Thee above me?
chapter-010	Where then did I find Thee, that I might learn Thee?
chapter-010	Where then did they know this happy life, save where they know the truth also?
chapter-010	Where then?
chapter-010	Which images, how they are formed, who can tell, though it doth plainly appear by which sense each hath been brought in and stored up?
chapter-010	Who now shall search out this?
chapter-010	Who will say so?
chapter-010	Who wishes for troubles and difficulties?
chapter-010	Whom could I find to reconcile me to Thee?
chapter-010	Why am I more stung by reproach cast upon myself, than at that cast upon another, with the same injustice, before me?
chapter-010	Why seek they to hear from me what I am; who will not hear from Thee what themselves are?
chapter-010	Why then does not the disputer, thus recollecting, taste in the mouth of his musing the sweetness of joy, or the bitterness of sorrow?
chapter-010	Why then joy they not in it?
chapter-010	and to pray for me, when they shall hear how much I am held back by my own weight?
chapter-010	and who knoweth and saith,"It is false,"unless himself lieth?
chapter-010	by what prayers?
chapter-010	by what sacraments?
chapter-010	how then doth it not comprehend itself?
chapter-010	is it lulled asleep with the senses of the body?
chapter-010	is not a happy life what all will, and no one altogether wills it not?
chapter-010	of what kind it is?"
chapter-010	or is it at last that I deceive myself, and do not the truth before Thee in my heart and tongue?
chapter-010	or shall I say that forgetfulness is for this purpose in my memory, that I might not forget?
chapter-010	was I to have recourse to Angels?
chapter-010	what it is?
chapter-010	what manner of lodging hast Thou framed for Thee?
chapter-010	what manner of sanctuary hast Thou builded for Thee?
chapter-010	whence should I recognise it, did I not remember it?
chapter-010	where have they known it, that they so will it?
chapter-010	where seen it, that they so love it?
chapter-010	who ever sounded the bottom thereof?
chapter-010	who is He above the head of my soul?
chapter-010	who shall comprehend how it is?
chapter-010	why are they not happy?
chapter-010	why then speaks it not the same to all?