{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_018: I beseech Thee, my", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_34a8dc4d3d92", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_036: I therefore, O my Praise and my Life, God of my heart, laying aside for a whi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I therefore, O my Praise and my Life, God of my heart, laying aside for a while her good deeds, for which I give thanks to Thee with joy, do now beseech Thee for the sins of my mother. Hearken unto me"}, {"id": "card_n_a31688f13822", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_062: Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praise...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praises, for my own sake, but for the good of my neighbour. And whether it be so with me, I know not. For herein I know less of m"}, {"id": "card_n_66d38a1bc34d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_005: I would hear and understand, how \"In the Beginning Thou madest the heaven and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would hear and understand, how \"In the Beginning Thou madest the heaven and earth.\" Moses wrote this, wrote and departed, passed hence from Thee to Thee; nor is he now before me. For if he were, I w"}, {"id": "card_n_c92219bd1b79", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_018: I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or wa"}, {"id": "card_n_97c7809f3d80", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_028: My soul is on fire to know this most intricate enigma.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My soul is on fire to know this most intricate enigma. Shut it not up, O Lord my God, good Father; through Christ I beseech Thee, do not shut up these usual, yet hidden things, from my desire, that it"}, {"id": "card_n_63175690c5e0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_011: Already Thou hast told me with a strong voice, O Lord, in my inner ear, that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Already Thou hast told me with a strong voice, O Lord, in my inner ear, that Thou art eternal, Who only hast immortality; since Thou canst not be changed as to figure or motion, nor is Thy will altere"}, {"id": "card_n_d5ad2bcf74a9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_056: In this so vast wilderness, full of snares and dangers, behold many of them I...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In this so vast wilderness, full of snares and dangers, behold many of them I have cut off, and thrust out of my heart, as Thou hast given me, O God of my salvation. And yet when dare I say, since so "}, {"id": "card_n_44fcbdff115e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_022: With these I now parley a little in Thy presence, O my God, who grant all the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "With these I now parley a little in Thy presence, O my God, who grant all these things to be true, which Thy Truth whispers unto my soul. For those who deny these things, let them bark and deafen them"}, {"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_574c72fed151", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_035: See what a space I have gone over in my memory seeking Thee, O Lord; and I ha...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "See what a space I have gone over in my memory seeking Thee, O Lord; and I have not found Thee, without it. Nor have I found any thing concerning Thee, but what I have kept in memory, ever since I lea"}, {"id": "card_n_be1f34c3c2ff", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_007: But what was the cause, O true-speaking Light?--unto Thee lift I up my heart,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what was the cause, O true-speaking Light?--unto Thee lift I up my heart, let it not teach me vanities, dispel its darkness; and tell me, I beseech Thee, by our mother charity, tell me the reason,"}, {"id": "card_n_f4d3f6455abc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_004: Lord, have mercy on me, and hear my desire.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, have mercy on me, and hear my desire. For it is not, I deem, of the earth, not of gold and silver, and precious stones, or gorgeous apparel, or honours and offices, or the pleasures of the flesh"}, {"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_9d11f44229d4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_001: O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord, I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, and the son of Thy handmaid: Thou hast broken my bonds in sunder. I will offer to Thee the sacrifice of praise. Let my heart and my tongue praise Thee; yea,"}, {"id": "card_n_e1a80474b5bd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_001: Accept the sacrifice of my confessions from the ministry of my tongue, which ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Accept the sacrifice of my confessions from the ministry of my tongue, which Thou hast formed and stirred up to confess unto Thy name. Heal Thou all my bones, and let them say, O Lord, who is like unt"}, {"id": "card_n_b9c13a8b9681", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_010: Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God? I see it in a way; but how to express it, I know not, unless it be, that whatsoever begins to be, and leaves off to be, begins then, and leaves off then, when in Th"}, {"id": "card_n_84f495238d6b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_001: O my God, let me, with thanksgiving, remember, and confess unto Thee Thy merc...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O my God, let me, with thanksgiving, remember, and confess unto Thee Thy mercies on me. Let my bones be bedewed with Thy love, and let them say unto Thee, Who is like unto Thee, O Lord? Thou hast brok"}, {"id": "card_n_8481d1537988", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_037: Where then did I find Thee, that I might learn Thee?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Where then did I find Thee, that I might learn Thee? For in my memory Thou wert not, before I learned Thee. Where then did I find Thee, that I might learn Thee, but in Thee above me? Place there is no"}, {"id": "card_n_0a05e3e07adf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_005: Oh!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, and inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good! What art Thou to me? In Thy pity, teach me to "}, {"id": "card_n_861d9856a221", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_002: And from Thee, O Lord, unto whose eyes the abyss of man's conscience is naked...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And from Thee, O Lord, unto whose eyes the abyss of man's conscience is naked, what could be hidden in me though I would not confess it? For I should hide Thee from me, not me from Thee. But now, for "}]}