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schoolofpreachers.org/making-a-noise… A blog reflecting on the withdrawn "Quiet Revial" report.

There’s a joy that isn’t given to the irreverent, but to those who worship you with no expectation of a reward- those whose joy you yourself are. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

But with the sky, too, and the earth, and everything in the - look from all directions everything is telling me to love you, and never stops telling all people, so that they have no excuse. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

It isn’t with a wavering but with a sure awareness that I love you, Master. You struck my heart to the core with your Word, and I fell in love with you. Augustine Confessions ((Ruden)

I am a little child, but my Father lives forever, and my protector is the right one for me. It is the very same self who begot me and guards me; you yourself are everything good that belongs to me; you are all powerful, you are with me before I am with you. Augustine Confessions

It delights good people to hear about the past evil acts of those who are now free of them; it isn’t a source of delight that these acts are evil, but rather that they are no longer going on. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

But to you Master, to whose eyes the deep chasm of the human conscience is laid bare, what would be hidden in me, even if I didn’t wish to confess it to you? I could hide you away from myself, but not myself from you. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

schoolofpreachers.org/calling-a-spad… We really must talk about sin!

Let me know you, you whose business is to know me, to vouch for me and plead for me - let me know you the way you know me. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

But what words I poured out to you as I read those psalms! And how I caught the spark from them and kindled in you and burned to read them out loud. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

Come, Master, and act, rouse us and call us back, set us alight and revish us; blaze for us, grow sweet to us. Let us love you passionately, let us run to you. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

When I think how high are your heights, and how deep in the depths! You never recede, but we struggle to return to you. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

Have pity on me; heal my soul, since I have sinned against you - and not to use your leniency as a licence to sin. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

To you our grace I give the credit, and to your mercy, that you’ve melted my sins like ice. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

What does ambition seek but honours and glory? -whereas you’re the one to be honoured above all, and full of glory into eternity. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

Prideful human exaltation, for its part, only mimics transcendence, since you’re the one over everything, the transcendent God. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

schoolofpreachers.org/confessions/ A blog on reading Augustine's Confessions and a reminder of our reading day on his great book on preaching: On Christian Teaching. seaford.life/preachers to sign up.

Thanks be to you, my sweetness and my honour and my faithfulness, my God, thanks be to you for your gifts; but you must preserve them for me, and by doing this you will preserve me, and what you have given me will grow and come to fulfilment. Augustine Confessions (Rudens)

It was the tipsy glee in which this sorry world has forgotten you, it creator, and fallen in love instead with something you’ve created; its from the unseen wine of a self-wilfulness distorted and tipped down into the depths. Augustine Confessions (Ruden)

Master, to you as the absolutely superior and the perfect originator and regulator of everything that is, to you as our God thanks are due. Augustine Confessions (Rudens)