{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_027: For true it is, O L", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_4a1031501116", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_032: Far be it, Lord, far be it from the heart of Thy servant who here confesseth ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Far be it, Lord, far be it from the heart of Thy servant who here confesseth unto Thee, far be it, that, be the joy what it may, I should therefore think myself happy. For there is a joy which is not "}, {"id": "card_n_0dfc1b8fc688", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_010: Away with those then from my soul who say to her, \"It makes a difference when...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Away with those then from my soul who say to her, \"It makes a difference whence a man's joy is. That beggar-man joyed in drunkenness; Thou desiredst to joy in glory.\" What glory, Lord? That which is n"}, {"id": "card_n_d8df57262ee0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_033: Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I say: for if he should ask me, \"How know you that Moses thought that which you infer out of his words?\" I ought to take it i"}, {"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_8087d5daa7d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_003: What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if they could heal all my infirmities--a race, curious to know the lives of others, slothful to amend their own? Why seek they"}, {"id": "card_n_7242ded11ca9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_027: For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For the woman that had lost her groat, and sought it with a light; unless she had remembered it, she had never found it. For when it was found, whence should she know whether it were the same, unless "}, {"id": "card_n_bf7857dc238f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_034: Hearken, O God, Thou best judge; Truth Itself, hearken to what I shall say to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hearken, O God, Thou best judge; Truth Itself, hearken to what I shall say to this gainsayer, hearken, for before Thee do I speak, and before my brethren, who employ Thy law lawfully, to the end of ch"}, {"id": "card_n_e358c564ba96", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_009: Thou callest us then to understand the Word, God, with Thee God, Which is spo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou callest us then to understand the Word, God, with Thee God, Which is spoken eternally, and by It are all things spoken eternally. For what was spoken was not spoken successively, one thing conclu"}, {"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_192ffa7941e8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_025: For as deeds of violence arise, if that emotion of the soul be corrupted, whe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For as deeds of violence arise, if that emotion of the soul be corrupted, whence vehement action springs, stirring itself insolently and unrulily; and lusts, when that affection of the soul is ungover"}, {"id": "card_n_4a0571faea3e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_007: In those years when I first began to teach rhetoric in my native town, I had ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In those years when I first began to teach rhetoric in my native town, I had made one my friend, but too dear to me, from a community of pursuits, of mine own age, and, as myself, in the first opening"}, {"id": "card_n_8c228cf64f65", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_019: \"But our true Life came down hither, and bore our death, and slew him, out of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"But our true Life came down hither, and bore our death, and slew him, out of the abundance of His own life: and He thundered, calling aloud to us to return hence to Him into that secret place, whence"}, {"id": "card_n_24346c864151", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_059: But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lord, who hast no lord; hath this third kind of temptation also ceased from me, or can it cease through this whole life? To w"}, {"id": "card_n_aa7c0f1d489c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_035: What then shall I say, O Truth my Light?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then shall I say, O Truth my Light? \"that it was idly said, and without meaning?\" Not so, O Father of piety, far be it from a minister of Thy word to say so. And if I understand not what Thou mea"}, {"id": "card_n_5232a0af5850", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_034: Courage, my mind, and press on mightily.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Courage, my mind, and press on mightily. God is our helper, He made us, and not we ourselves. Press on where truth begins to dawn. Suppose, now, the voice of a body begins to sound, and does sound, an"}, {"id": "card_n_5e19604c13f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_031: These things then being heard and perceived, according to the weakness of my ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things then being heard and perceived, according to the weakness of my capacity (which I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that knowest it), two sorts of disagreements I see may arise, when a thing is "}, {"id": "card_n_c72f9c71957a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_026: All which things being heard and well considered, I will not strive about wor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "All which things being heard and well considered, I will not strive about words: for that is profitable to nothing, but the subversion of the hearers. But the law is good to edify, if a man use it law"}, {"id": "card_n_4340881c8b53", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_004: Those impostors then, whom they style Mathematicians, I consulted without scr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Those impostors then, whom they style Mathematicians, I consulted without scruple; because they seemed to use no sacrifice, nor to pray to any spirit for their divinations: which art, however, Christi"}, {"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"}]}