{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_024: Hear, Lord, my pray", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_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_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_dbd77dc05955", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_014: O God my God, what miseries and mockeries did I now experience, when obedienc...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O God my God, what miseries and mockeries did I now experience, when obedience to my teachers was proposed to me, as proper in a boy, in order that in this world I might prosper, and excel in tongue-s"}, {"id": "card_n_a84edfe2920a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_003: O Lord my God, give ear unto my prayer, and let Thy mercy hearken unto my des...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord my God, give ear unto my prayer, and let Thy mercy hearken unto my desire: because it is anxious not for myself alone, but would serve brotherly charity; and Thou seest my heart, that so it is."}, {"id": "card_n_3f19baf7aecd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_024: Hear, Lord, my prayer; let not my soul faint under Thy discipline, nor let me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hear, Lord, my prayer; let not my soul faint under Thy discipline, nor let me faint in confessing unto Thee all Thy mercies, whereby Thou hast drawn me out of all my most evil ways, that Thou mightest"}, {"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_dabe5995cdb5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_039: But because Thy loving-kindness is better than all lives, behold, my life is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But because Thy loving-kindness is better than all lives, behold, my life is but a distraction, and Thy right hand upheld me, in my Lord the Son of man, the Mediator betwixt Thee, The One, and us many"}, {"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_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_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_f38cd38ffe3e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_070: Affrighted with my sins and the burden of my misery, I had cast in my heart, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Affrighted with my sins and the burden of my misery, I had cast in my heart, and had purposed to flee to the wilderness: but Thou forbadest me, and strengthenedst me, saying, Therefore Christ died for"}, {"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_56220699c644", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_025: Meanwhile my sins were being multiplied, and my concubine being torn from my ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Meanwhile my sins were being multiplied, and my concubine being torn from my side as a hindrance to my marriage, my heart which clave unto her was torn and wounded and bleeding. And she returned to Af"}, {"id": "card_n_0dde46e47217", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_017: As a boy, then, I had already heard of an eternal life, promised us through t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "As a boy, then, I had already heard of an eternal life, promised us through the humility of the Lord our God stooping to our pride; and even from the womb of my mother, who greatly hoped in Thee, I wa"}, {"id": "card_n_48cee29e5ce3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_038: May she rest then in peace with the husband before and after whom she had nev...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "May she rest then in peace with the husband before and after whom she had never any; whom she obeyed, with patience bringing forth fruit unto Thee, that she might win him also unto Thee. And inspire, "}, {"id": "card_n_2a9279be1c2e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_011: What then do I love, when I love my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then do I love, when I love my God? who is He above the head of my soul? By my very soul will I ascend to Him. I will pass beyond that power whereby I am united to my body, and fill its whole fra"}, {"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_1d034ae94589", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_006: Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall clean"}]}