Some Strange Sweetness

Confessions Book X Augustine new translation Peter Constantine universal grace to the humble “better is the man who praised” “daily furnace is the tongue of man” “anoint my head” “I am poor and needy” “who are pleased with themselves flounder” “And sometimes You guide me to a most rare inner state, to some strange sweetness that, were it perfected in me, would not be of this world” habits 21 days