Saint Augustine: Confessions

Part I of Essay
When I think of the many mysteries in our vast universe, one stands out as the most puzzling. It affects our lives, from birth, until we are placed in our graves a generation later. Within it exists history. Without it, we would be aimless and confused. We would not know wh ....

Part II of Essay
.... aimlessly in the vast fields of eternity, searching for nothing, living without a purpose. Time gives man a time frame. That time frame is life. Time is everything. I’m sure that if you asked any person what time is, they would respond by saying some thing about minutes and seconds. Mankind, unfortunately, sees time as an object. The human mind has the tendency to make everything objective. We have even made objects of God and his holy son, despite the commandment in Exodus, which forbids it. This is all great, but the question remains; What ....