People who influenced me: St. Augustine

St Augustine is an unlikely candidate for people who influenced me, but the accidental introduction to a book of his called 'Confessions' changed my course.

I was astonished at the moderness of the book though it was written in the fourth century, but then it came about that christianity / catholicism and therefore western culture itself was shaped by the works of people like Augustine and later Thomas Acquinas.

Later on the fact that the modern world is in very broad terms in a paradigm of Greco- Roman one carried on by the Catholic church which inherited the Roman Empire, including the jurisprudence of most of the modern western world and its former colonies would suffice to say that the influence of such people are far from appreciated.

However my liking of St. Augustine is captured in his saying,
'Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee', in that it both captures the ubiquitous restlessness of man but deliberately directed it towards the Lord which is a happy compromiseof the basic condition of man and its positive solution in the Christian quest.