Example from The Autobiography: The Confessions

In the confessions there is an eagerness to communicate to a superhuman entity feelings of guilt for the acts experienced, with the intention of invoking forgiveness to feel "clean". This genre was excellently cultivated by Saint Augustine in his famous work The Confessions, in whose introduction we read the following words: ".. The confessions constitute an entirely new autobiography, in which the project of narrating life gives way to metaphysical and religious concerns, in which the author seeks less to expose his own history than to satisfy his religious life and awaken in his readers the religious feeling that he experiences in himself. "I present below a portion of this book of the Bishop of Hippo:
WHY OF THESE CONFESSIONS, EVEN THOUGH GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING
"Can you, Lord, eternity being yours, ignore what I say or see according to time, what happens in time? Why, then, do I tell you so many events?
It's certainly not for you to meet them for me. But I excite my love for you and that of those who read me, so that we may all say: Great is the Lord and very worthy of praise!

I have already said it and I repeat it again: for the love of your love I make these confessions. Well, we also pray, even though the Truth says: Your Father knows what you need, before you ask him.
It is, then, our feelings towards you that we express, confessing to you our miseries and your mercies towards us, so that you finish freeing us, since you have begun; so that we stop being miserable in ourselves and be blessed in you, since you have called us; so that we may be of the poor in spirit and of the meek and of those who mourn and of those who hunger and thirst for justice and of the merciful and of the pure in heart and of the peaceful.
You see that I have told you many things, which I have been able and have wanted, because first you wanted me to confess to you, Lord my God, that you are good, that your mercy is eternal. "(Cf. Complementary bibliography, N9 1)