Book 8:7
'Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.' — the iconic prayer of the divided will.
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From Confessions by Saint Augustine
Augustine's painful account of bondage to sexual habit and his prayer for chastity, illustrating the divided will that wills and does not will simultaneously.
Book 8:9
The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed; the mind commands itself and is resisted.Read in Books4Free →
Book 6:15
Augustine sending away his concubine — 'my heart was broken and wounded and shed blood.'
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