Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we are going

back to our good friend Augustine. We spent time

with Augustine on our very first episode of five minutes in church history and we

have visited with him often.

But I'm returning this time to offer a summary

of all of his thought in five sayings.

So here we go, Augustine in five sayings.

The first saying is from the very first paragraph

of his famous classic text, Confessions.

And this saying goes,

you have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until they find their

rest in you. Now that restlessness of Augustine was philosophical.

He was all over the philosophical map, trying to find a worldview or a system that would answer

his questions.

It was moral and ethical.

Again, Augustine was the quintessential seeker

moving from this system to that.

It was also literal.

He traveled across the face of North Africa,

cross the Mediterranean to Rome, off to Milan. He was a restless soul. He finally found that rest. He finally found the answer to

all those questions in God or perhaps Augustine would correct us and say that

God found him and in God he had peace and rest.

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