How did Augustine get saved?

Answer 1

After a life he considered to be dissolute and wasted, but not knowing how to put his life back together Augustine heard about Saint Anthony, the Egyptian Christian hermit.

Hearing this, he was suddenly seized with a sense of his wretchedness. He called out to God to bring an end to his impure life.

He suddenly heard a voice from a nearby house chanting as if it might be a boy or a girl, saying and repeating over and over again 'Pick up and read, pick up and read.' He tried to think of what game that could be, but could not think of one, and immediately interpreted it as a divine command to open a book and read the first chapter he might find. So he hurried back to the place he had put down the book of the apostle just recently.

Augustine seized the book, opened it and in silence read the first passage on which his eyes fell: 'Not in riots and drunken parties, not in eroticism and indecencies, not in strife and rivalry, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh in its lusts' [Rom 13:13-15]. He neither wished nor needed to read further. At once, with the last words of this sentence, it was as if a light of relief from all anxiety flooded into his heart; all the shadows of doubt were dispelled.

Answer 2

Augustine, an influential Christian theologian, experienced a conversion to Christianity after a long spiritual journey. He was deeply influenced by the teachings of Saint Ambrose and struggled with his own sinful nature before finally surrendering to God's grace and being baptized. Augustine's famous conversion moment came when he heard a child's voice telling him to "Take up and read," leading him to read a passage from The Bible that changed his life.