Saint Augustine Of Hippo Once Stated

Fascination with Love: I was not in love as yet, but I was in love with love; and, from a hidden hunger, I hated myself for not feeling more intensely a sense of hunger. I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares. (Augustine).

As our unnamed heroine slumps through afternoon traffic, exhausted and crestfallen from another arduous day of swilling diet coke by the pallid light of a word processor, she turns on the car radio to find a pertinent message being broadcasted.

“Forgive me for not noticing you Isaac.” She said while chewing. “I’m still not fully awake yet, how did you sleep?”

“Well good morning to you too, Jean Louise. Did you sleep well?” Her voice was frail, her eyes were red and baggy. I could tell she did not sleep much last night.

Crunching rocks filled the girl's ears as she woke up. Allison was unaware that she had ever fallen asleep. She opened her eyes and glanced at her phone, which had stopped playing music about an hour ago, based on the fact that it had reached the end of the playlist. "Wake up honey, we're here," Allison's mother whispered. Allison sat up straight and looked out her window. The sun was shining bright for the first time in ages. Allison suddenly spotted her friends walking their horses to the stables.

Road trips with the family weren’t always fun and exciting. Sometimes they could get very irritating. For instance, I remember the time when my family and I went to Indiana for Carter’s Hoop Shoot Regional Final. When we were finally about two hours away from our destination, the transmission on my mom’s GMC Acadia stopped working completely. As a result, we had to pay around 4,000 dollars to get it fixed and had to wait an extra couple days after the Hoop Shoot so it could get fixed. That trip was very stressful and made everything we did harder and a lot more frustrating.

“Whats this about?” She sounded exhausted. “I need to get to bed. I have an early morning tomorrow.” She said between gulps of water.

"Ava... Ava." I hear my name being called and I groan at the intrusion of my sleep. I turn over to my side and bring the blankets up, covering my face completely from the morning sun.

How many of you have embarked on a trip that will forever be in your memory? Was it because you had a great time with your family, friends or even an acquaintance that you will never forget? Or was it just the time that you spent on the road? Well for me, I have had all those memories, but the trip I embarked on in 2008 was something else.

“It didn’t seem right to wake you when you’d barely slept,” he answered with a wicked grin.

I walked out of my house on Sunday, telling my parents I was going for a drive. I got in my silver 2007 Chevrolet Aveo. I plugged my phone into the auxiliary cord, and scrolled down my music library, stopping on Frank Sinatra. I clicked the album Ultimate Sinatra, and played “That’s Life”. I put my car in drive and pulled out of my driveway. I drove all over Kansas City that morning.

Augustine of Hippo was a Christian scholar who focused mainly on western Christianity and philosophy. After being a part of many different religions, including Manichaeism and Platonism, he converted to Christianity and started making philosophical discoveries within the religion. Throughout his life, Augustine of Hippo had many great ideas as well as some questioning ones, all of which described his view on life and religion and everything in between. In my opinion, Augustine’s most interesting ideas were those on original sin and predestination since he seemed to put much though into these throughout the course of his life. Augustine’s most questionable ideas were those on marriage and relationships since his thoughts seemed to be very different than those of his time as well as him not being able to stick to just one idea and instead switching his practice multiple times throughout his life.

“Wha-wait what? What are you talking about?”she questioned a little upset because she was sleeping, quite happily too.

“Get some sleep,” he called, helping me back to the blanket. “We'll need all our strength for

Throughout the ages, there have been countless influences on not only social and political life, but on religious character and prevalence as well. Aurelius Augustine, who would eventually rise to the position of bishop in the early Catholic Church, was one of the most interesting characters that would surely leave his mark on the Roman Empire, especially in the few decades before the western part of the empire was to be taken over by Germanic tribes from the North. Perhaps, his most influential characteristic that history still records today, was his striking tenacity to preserve the Christian religion as it was ‘supposed’ to be and to spread that influence to all who walked the earth. This, of course, is only a small fraction of the