{"query": "A parable — Grace to others", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d346f6fb05a9", "title": "A parable — Grace to others", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "An elder brother stayed in the field while the younger spent the inheritance and returned. The father killed the calf for the younger and threw a feast. The elder stood outside, refusing to enter. The"}, {"id": "card_n_61bf8457ea27", "title": "A parable — Suffering illness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man prayed three times for the thorn to be removed. Each time the answer was no. The fourth time he did not ask, and learned: the thorn was the door through which grace had come. The strength had be"}, {"id": "card_n_a7de972699bd", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_15: The Voice of the Beloved Thou oughtest to seek earnestly the grace of devotio...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Beloved Thou oughtest to seek earnestly the grace of devotion, to ask it fervently, to wait for it patiently and faithfully, to receive it gratefully, to preserve it humbly, to work w"}, {"id": "card_n_e90bcaad8cd2", "title": "Amazing Grace", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Amazing grace! How sweet the sound\nThat saved a wretch like me!\nI once was lost, but now am found,\nWas blind, but now I see.\n\n'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,\nAnd grace my fears relieved;\nHow"}, {"id": "card_n_bd5662f9173d", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_07: “My Son, it is better and safer for thee to hide the grace of devotion, and n...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, it is better and safer for thee to hide the grace of devotion, and not to lift thyself up on high, nor to speak much thereof, nor to value it greatly; but rather to despise thyself, and to fe"}, {"id": "card_n_1ccb13110ae0", "title": "A parable — Aging field", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A farmer walked his field at evening and saw the rows he had not planted, and the rows planted and not yet harvested. The light was leaving. He had time to harvest some, and he had time to plant nothi"}, {"id": "card_n_b031c4b9ef92", "title": "A parable — Anger slow", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A wise man taught: be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. The young men reversed the order each day, and each day they were sorry. The old man said nothing about it. He had learned the order "}, {"id": "card_n_23ec117624fc", "title": "A parable — Loaded question", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked his neighbor: 'When did you stop cheating your workers?' His neighbor opened his mouth to answer, then closed it. To answer 'yesterday' was to confess. To answer 'never' was to confess dif"}, {"id": "card_n_1e4b38fc12d4", "title": "A parable — Hope false", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The prophet wrote: I know the plans I have for you, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. The exiles took this to mean tomorrow. It was meant for seventy years later. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_8b6256f0ebba", "title": "A parable — Decision two roads", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man stood at the fork of two roads with no map. He sat down to think and a thousand reasons came, half for each road. After many hours he saw he was no closer to choosing. Then he remembered the thi"}, {"id": "card_n_c094f5a89427", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_54: “My Son, pay diligent heed to the motions of Nature and of Grace, because the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, pay diligent heed to the motions of Nature and of Grace, because they move in a very contrary and subtle manner, and are hardly distinguished save by a spiritual and inwardly enlightened man."}, {"id": "card_n_ad1729369430", "title": "A parable — Returning to first", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man returned to the field of his youth. The well he had drunk from was still there but the path was overgrown. He cleared the path himself and drank. The water tasted the same. He had not lost the w"}, {"id": "card_n_2773c91c04b3", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_03: First keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "First keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker towards others. A peaceable man doth more good than a well-learned. A passionate man turneth even good into evil and easily "}, {"id": "card_n_4b288385a28c", "title": "A parable — Boundary pearls", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man carried pearls and gave one to everyone he met. The wise received them and kept them safe. The unwise dropped them and walked on. Some trampled them under foot. The man had only so many pearls; "}, {"id": "card_n_7f0e373db3d6", "title": "A parable — No cloning", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A singer had a voice no one could copy. Many tried to learn it. Those who learned the song were not the singer; those who imitated the singer broke their own voice. The voice could be heard, and given"}, {"id": "card_n_90ab16a347bd", "title": "A parable — Suffering grief", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When his friend died, the Lord did not say, 'do not mourn, for I will raise him.' He wept first. He raised him afterward. The tears were not a failure of faith — they were faith making room for love.\n"}, {"id": "card_n_62c373c206b5", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_16: Those things which a man cannot amend in himself or in others, he ought patie...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Those things which a man cannot amend in himself or in others, he ought patiently to bear, until God shall otherwise ordain. Bethink thee that perhaps it is better for thy trial and patience, without "}, {"id": "card_n_23818bc5d8fe", "title": "A parable — Authority", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked a passing stranger where to build his house. The stranger pointed to a place by a river. The man built there. Soon the rains came, and the river rose, and the house was lost. The stranger "}, {"id": "card_n_915a4bb7dd8d", "title": "A parable — Neuroscience window", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man wanted to plant an orchard. Each spring he had reasons to wait, and each fall he agreed with himself it had been wise. By the time he planted, his hands could no longer dig deep, and the trees g"}, {"id": "card_n_c8454734e99f", "title": "A parable — Imposter", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young scribe was given the seal of the king and told to write in his name. He wrote, but at every line he expected the king to come and say, 'You are not me.' The king never came. The seal had been "}]}