Restless? Fall Forward: Why God’s Greatest Heroes Are Often His Biggest Projects First

Augustine wanted to be brilliant. He ended up restless.

He wanted clarity, fame, women, arguments he could win, and a mother who would stop praying him into corners. He tried pleasure first. Then philosophy. Then pride. Then power. But none of it stuck. He was, in his own words, "scattered."

That’s what sin does—it doesn’t just stain. It fragments. You ca…