His conversion was less dramatic than Paul’s because he never persecuted the church and had no Damascus Road experience, but in essentials it was much the same. Like Paul, Augustine was deeply conscious that it was not he who had found God but God who had found him. This is the hallmark of true conversion and it shaped his entire outlook. Augustine had done nothing to deserve this wonderful gift from God, and he knew it. What he was, he was by the grace of God and not by any merit or action on his