{"query": "A parable — Pride praise", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_de582c7ac9a4", "title": "A parable — Pride praise b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was praised for his work, and walked taller because of it. By evening he had grown to fit the praise. By morning the praise had moved to another, and he was small again. The praise had not added"}, {"id": "card_n_88bdb0a990f3", "title": "Psalm 150 — Praise Ye the LORD", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with the sounding "}, {"id": "card_n_5251cf7a9b90", "title": "A parable — Pride praise", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man stood at the front of the temple and thanked God he was not like other men — extortioners, unjust, adulterers. A second man stood at the back and would not lift his eyes, and only said, God be m"}, {"id": "card_n_bd0baa002443", "title": "Psalm 148 — Psalm 148", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise Yah! Praise Yahweh from the heavens! Praise him in the heights! Praise him, all his angels! Praise him, all his army! Praise him, sun and moon! Praise him, all you shining stars! Praise him, yo"}, {"id": "card_n_02fa11f83913", "title": "Doxology (Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow)", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;\nPraise Him, all creatures here below;\nPraise Him above, ye heavenly host;\nPraise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen."}, {"id": "card_n_8cf619b3f99d", "title": "A parable — Pride humility b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A teacher knelt to tie the shoes of his students before the long walk. The students were embarrassed and tried to refuse; but the teacher said, 'You will walk farther if your shoes are tied. The walki"}, {"id": "card_n_152adfad178f", "title": "A parable — Pride status", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Son of God, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God — but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was found in fashion as a man. T"}, {"id": "card_n_b3dff7685a9e", "title": "A parable — Kerckhoffs", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A locksmith made a lock so clever no one could open it. His pride was the lock itself. When a thief studied the lock long enough, the lock fell open like all locks fall open, and the locksmith had no "}, {"id": "card_n_ca4de1cb31db", "title": "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!\nO my soul, praise Him, for He is thy health and salvation!\nAll ye who hear, now to His temple draw near;\nJoin me in glad adoration!\n\nPraise to t"}, {"id": "card_n_438802f29aca", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_144: We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "We do not like to praise, and we never praise without a motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as th"}, {"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_effe4bf87816", "title": "A parable — Envy", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man kept a ledger of his neighbor's blessings. The ledger grew thick. His neighbor's house, his neighbor's wife, his neighbor's ox, his neighbor's days. He carried the ledger everywhere. He could no"}, {"id": "card_n_dec5b14dc67b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_001: Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality,"}, {"id": "card_n_7fc1166cbd90", "title": "A parable — Suffering betrayal", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist wrote: it was not an enemy who reproached me — I could have borne that. It was you, my equal, my companion. The wound from a friend's hand goes deeper than the sword's, because the friend"}, {"id": "card_n_c98e4733373b", "title": "A parable — Tongue", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, set on fire of hell. One small spark in a dry forest in summer. The forest was a hundred years growing. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_e586205d665c", "title": "A parable — Least privilege", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A steward of a great house carried every key on his belt. A guest borrowed one key for one room, and when he was found in another room, the steward had no defense, for every door had been open. A wise"}, {"id": "card_n_4543b0454ea6", "title": "A parable — Envy neighbor", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman counted her neighbor's blessings each morning and her own each evening. By month's end she could recite her neighbor's list and had forgotten her own. The garden she walked through every day h"}, {"id": "card_n_df07989eae54", "title": "A parable — Phishing", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A sheep heard the shepherd's voice calling at the gate, and ran to open it. But the voice was a wolf in the shepherd's coat. None of the other sheep had seen the shepherd come; none had been asked. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_ebd9f46f16cd", "title": "A parable — Addiction scroll", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man drew water from a well that had no bottom. The bucket was light, and came up empty every time. He kept drawing because the bucket was light. Years passed. He had moved his arm a hundred thousand"}, {"id": "card_n_17ba1fbceeda", "title": "A parable — Unconformity", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A scribe wrote the history of a kingdom from the stones in its walls. He thought he had written all of it. But beneath the wall, between two layers of stone, was a missing age — a famine, a fault, a s"}]}