Zeal of pious souls

Confessions Book XIII Augustine translated by Peter Constantine LiveRight 2018 “nor will I be silent on what this lesson suggests to me” “is there not something that you want to give us to understand?” Tame impulses by “chastity fasting and pious meditations” “the reason for all these words having to be pronounced physically is the abyss of this world and the blindness of the flesh that cannot see thoughts, so that the words must resound in the ears”