{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_025: But woe is thee, th", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_f724740bef94", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_007: But whence had it this degree of being, but from Thee, from Whom are all thin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But whence had it this degree of being, but from Thee, from Whom are all things, so far forth as they are? But so much the further from Thee, as the unliker Thee; for it is not farness of place. 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Who shall stand against thee? how long shalt thou not be dried up? how long roll the sons of Eve into that huge and hideous ocean, which even they scarce"}, {"id": "card_n_5c5443043503", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_003: How did corporeal matter deserve of Thee, to be even invisible and without form?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How did corporeal matter deserve of Thee, to be even invisible and without form? seeing it were not even this, but that Thou madest it, and therefore because it was not, could not deserve of Thee to b"}, {"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_4433e20e3c89", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_026: But I pressed towards Thee, and was thrust from Thee, that I might taste of d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I pressed towards Thee, and was thrust from Thee, that I might taste of death: for thou resistest the proud. But what prouder, than for me with a strange madness to maintain myself to be that by n"}, {"id": "card_n_80cc656fa1a5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_014: Thus doth the soul commit fornication, when she turns from Thee, seeking with...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thus doth the soul commit fornication, when she turns from Thee, seeking without Thee, what she findeth not pure and untainted, till she returns to Thee. 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Thou hast brok"}, {"id": "card_n_944bbaa1619b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_003: Do the heaven and earth then contain Thee, since Thou fillest them?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Do the heaven and earth then contain Thee, since Thou fillest them? or dost Thou fill them and yet overflow, since they do not contain Thee? And whither, when the heaven and the earth are filled, pour"}, {"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. 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And behold, Thou wert within, and I abroad, and there I searched for Thee; deformed I, plunging amid those fa"}]}