{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_006: This is the fruit o", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5d4220bafc3a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_006: This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to confess this, not before Thee only, in a secret exultation with trembling, and a secret sorrow with hope; but in the ears "}, {"id": "card_n_934645b2b6b4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_004: But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by doing it. For the confessions of my past sins, which Thou hast forgiven and covered, that Thou mightest bless me in Thee, "}, {"id": "card_n_a6b76398421f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_034: But what is this, and what kind of mystery?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what is this, and what kind of mystery? Behold, Thou blessest mankind, O Lord, that they may increase and multiply, and replenish the earth; dost Thou not thereby give us a hint to understand some"}, {"id": "card_n_8d4362c182ce", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_005: But for what fruit would they hear this?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But for what fruit would they hear this? Do they desire to joy with me, when they hear how near, by Thy gift, I approach unto Thee? and to pray for me, when they shall hear how much I am held back by "}, {"id": "card_n_adc00955018f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_010: And now, Lord, these things are passed by, and time hath assuaged my wound.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now, Lord, these things are passed by, and time hath assuaged my wound. May I learn from Thee, who art Truth, and approach the ear of my heart unto Thy mouth, that Thou mayest tell me why weeping "}, {"id": "card_n_25ca17495cba", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_040: Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity? Rejoiceth he for that? Verily not for that. But how know we this? Because himself says immediately, not because I desire a g"}, {"id": "card_n_8b14d9b3f11a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_041: I will then speak what is true in Thy sight, O Lord, that when carnal men and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I will then speak what is true in Thy sight, O Lord, that when carnal men and infidels (for the gaining and initiating whom, the initiatory Sacraments and the mighty workings of miracles are necessary"}, {"id": "card_n_344dd6144576", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_039: But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it wer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it were said, At first He made, can only truly understand heaven and earth of the matter of heaven and earth, that is, of the uni"}, {"id": "card_n_bbd5dec175d6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_036: If therefore we conceive of the natures of the things themselves, not allegor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "If therefore we conceive of the natures of the things themselves, not allegorically, but properly, then does the phrase increase and multiply, agree unto all things, that come of seed. But if we treat"}, {"id": "card_n_eef7150c8404", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_009: This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This law holds in foul and accursed joy; this in permitted and lawful joy; this in the very purest perfection of friendship; this, in him who was dead, and lived again; had been lost and was found. Ev"}, {"id": "card_n_a5d9dbd6f0d2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_009: Theft is punished by Thy law, O Lord, and the law written in the hearts of me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Theft is punished by Thy law, O Lord, and the law written in the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not. For what thief will abide a thief? not even a rich thief, one stealing through want. "}, {"id": "card_n_b11fd37b562b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_037: I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture minds me of; ye...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture minds me of; yea, I will say, and not fear. For I will say the truth, Thyself inspiring me with what Thou willedst me to deliver out of th"}, {"id": "card_n_37d789e01081", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_038: But they are fed by these fruits, that are delighted with them; nor are they ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they are fed by these fruits, that are delighted with them; nor are they delighted with them, whose God is their belly. For neither in them that yield them, are the things yielded the fruit, but w"}, {"id": "card_n_5c0b9f551e48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_002: The lowliness of my tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, that Thou madest hea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The lowliness of my tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, that Thou madest heaven and earth; this heaven which I see, and this earth that I tread upon, whence is this earth that I bear about me; Thou m"}, {"id": "card_n_592b275b3694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_021: Whence is this monstrousness?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me. Whence is t"}, {"id": "card_n_a635af206bdf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_027: For true it is, O Lord, that Thou madest heaven and earth; and it is true too...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For true it is, O Lord, that Thou madest heaven and earth; and it is true too, that the Beginning is Thy Wisdom, in Which Thou createst all: and true again, that this visible world hath for its greate"}, {"id": "card_n_6bd1867c8704", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_026: Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this am I myself. What am I then, O my God? What nature am I? A life various"}, {"id": "card_n_d9a87d92cd43", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_013: By this may the soul, whose pilgrimage is made long and far away, by this may...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "By this may the soul, whose pilgrimage is made long and far away, by this may she understand, if she now thirsts for Thee, if her tears be now become her bread, while they daily say unto her, Where is"}, {"id": "card_n_1731536929b0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_036: It is in thee, my mind, that I measure times.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is in thee, my mind, that I measure times. Interrupt me not, that is, interrupt not thyself with the tumults of thy impressions. In thee I measure times; the impression, which things as they pass b"}, {"id": "card_n_f73877a9def8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_037: But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not? or how that past increased, which is now no longer, save that in the mind which enacteth this, there be three things done? For it ex"}]}