{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_013: And how Thou didst", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_52fb8c52ef30", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_015: But if any excursive brain rove over the images of forepassed times, and wond...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But if any excursive brain rove over the images of forepassed times, and wonder that Thou the God Almighty and All-creating and All-supporting, Maker of heaven and earth, didst for innumerable ages fo"}, {"id": "card_n_b8858c409f6f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_009: I panted after honours, gains, marriage; and thou deridedst me.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I panted after honours, gains, marriage; and thou deridedst me. In these desires I underwent most bitter crosses, Thou being the more gracious, the less Thou sufferedst aught to grow sweet to me, whic"}, {"id": "card_n_51aaccf372cf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_007: But how didst Thou make the heaven and the earth?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how didst Thou make the heaven and the earth? and what the engine of Thy so mighty fabric? For it was not as a human artificer, forming one body from another, according to the discretion of his mi"}, {"id": "card_n_8f3b66778ec8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_058: And Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healedst me ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healedst me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities"}, {"id": "card_n_5f4cbdf547c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_019: In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved not study, and hated to be forced to it. Yet I was forced; and this was well done towards me, but I did not well; for, unle"}, {"id": "card_n_07f578ec78f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_016: Or who, except Thou, our God, made for us that firmament of authority over us...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Or who, except Thou, our God, made for us that firmament of authority over us in Thy Divine Scripture? as it is said, For heaven shall be folded up like a scroll; and now is it stretched over us like "}, {"id": "card_n_5fa83f7f4965", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_016: Such was the story of Pontitianus; but Thou, O Lord, while he was speaking, d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Such was the story of Pontitianus; but Thou, O Lord, while he was speaking, didst turn me round towards myself, taking me from behind my back where I had placed me, unwilling to observe myself; and se"}, {"id": "card_n_beece41e2e3d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_008: But how didst Thou speak?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how didst Thou speak? In the way that the voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son? For that voice passed by and passed away, began and ended; the syllables sounded and passed a"}, {"id": "card_n_944bbaa1619b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_003: Do the heaven and earth then contain Thee, since Thou fillest them?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Do the heaven and earth then contain Thee, since Thou fillest them? or dost Thou fill them and yet overflow, since they do not contain Thee? And whither, when the heaven and the earth are filled, pour"}, {"id": "card_n_5582e73ffe05", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_013: And how Thou didst deliver me out of the bonds of desire, wherewith I was bou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And how Thou didst deliver me out of the bonds of desire, wherewith I was bound most straitly to carnal concupiscence, and out of the drudgery of worldly things, I will now declare, and confess unto T"}, {"id": "card_n_d18bf995698b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_014: Thou didst deal with me, that I should be persuaded to go to Rome, and to tea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou didst deal with me, that I should be persuaded to go to Rome, and to teach there rather, what I was teaching at Carthage. And how I was persuaded to this, I will not neglect to confess to Thee; b"}, {"id": "card_n_7f7c436dc87e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_007: Now was the day come wherein I was in deed to be freed of my Rhetoric Profess...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now was the day come wherein I was in deed to be freed of my Rhetoric Professorship, whereof in thought I was already freed. And it was done. Thou didst rescue my tongue, whence Thou hadst before resc"}, {"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_cfc7b686f54a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_057: Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curios...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount? How often do we begin as if we were tolerating people tellin"}, {"id": "card_n_d00550e148c0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_036: But where in my memory residest Thou, O Lord, where residest Thou there?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But where in my memory residest Thou, O Lord, where residest Thou there? what manner of lodging hast Thou framed for Thee? what manner of sanctuary hast Thou builded for Thee? Thou hast given this hon"}, {"id": "card_n_80581c8b81ae", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_038: Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! too late I loved Thee! And behold, Thou wert within, and I abroad, and there I searched for Thee; deformed I, plunging amid those fa"}, {"id": "card_n_82ead19204de", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_032: And behold, the corpse was carried to the burial; we went and returned withou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And behold, the corpse was carried to the burial; we went and returned without tears. For neither in those prayers which we poured forth unto Thee, when the Sacrifice of our ransom was offered for her"}, {"id": "card_n_8859147da93b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_001: I call upon Thee, O my God, my mercy, Who createdst me, and forgottest not me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I call upon Thee, O my God, my mercy, Who createdst me, and forgottest not me, forgetting Thee. I call Thee into my soul which, by the longing Thyself inspirest into her, Thou preparest for Thee. Fors"}, {"id": "card_n_9c54052ac290", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_043: And I looked narrowly to find, whether seven, or eight times Thou sawest that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I looked narrowly to find, whether seven, or eight times Thou sawest that Thy works were good, when they pleased Thee; but in Thy seeing I found no times, whereby I might understand that Thou sawe"}, {"id": "card_n_202888449903", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_016: Nor dost Thou by time, precede time: else shouldest Thou not precede all times.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Nor dost Thou by time, precede time: else shouldest Thou not precede all times. But Thou precedest all things past, by the sublimity of an ever-present eternity; and surpassest all future because they"}]}