5 Powerful Quotes From St. Augustine’s Most Famous Work

5 Powerful Quotes From St. Augustine’s Most Famous Work

Written in about A.D. 400, ‘Confessions’ details how God worked in the saint’s life and reads not just as a story but as a prayer.

5 powerful quotes from St. Augustine’s most famous work, the ‘Confessions’

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, Aug 28, 2025 / 04:00 am The Catholic Church honors St. Augustine of Hippo, an early Church Father, doctor of the Church, and foundational theologian, on Aug. 28. Augustine was brought up as a Christian in his early childhood but drifted from the Church, fathering a child out of wedlock and falling into the heresy of Manichaeism. His mother, Monica, a woman of deep faith who was later canonized herself, never stopped p…