{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_005: And Thy faithful me", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_b1673ad3a7e6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_007: Woe is me!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Woe is me! and dare I say that Thou heldest Thy peace, O my God, while I wandered further from Thee? Didst Thou then indeed hold Thy peace to me? And whose but Thine were these words which by my mothe"}, {"id": "card_n_c3837780a8cd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_005: And Thy faithful mercy hovered over me afar.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thy faithful mercy hovered over me afar. Upon how grievous iniquities consumed I myself, pursuing a sacrilegious curiosity, that having forsaken Thee, it might bring me to the treacherous abyss, a"}, {"id": "card_n_ccacee0e5831", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_035: And yet I, O my God, Thou lifter up of my humility, and rest of my labour, Wh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet I, O my God, Thou lifter up of my humility, and rest of my labour, Who hearest my confessions, and forgivest my sins: seeing Thou commandest me to love my neighbour as myself, I cannot believe"}, {"id": "card_n_2f9f80668791", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_007: Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes. Yet suffer me to speak, since I speak to Thy mercy, and not to scornful man. 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For it is not, I deem, of the earth, not of gold and silver, and precious stones, or gorgeous apparel, or honours and offices, or the pleasures of the flesh"}, {"id": "card_n_9d11f44229d4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_001: O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of praise. 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I call Thee into my soul which, by the longing Thyself inspirest into her, Thou preparest for Thee. 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Who shall comprehend? Who dec"}, {"id": "card_n_96b813bd9ef3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_007: For Thou, Lord, dost judge me: because, although no man knoweth the things of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For Thou, Lord, dost judge me: because, although no man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him, yet is there something of man, which neither the spirit of man that is in "}]}