{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_012: For other than this", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_47cc63f19e66", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_012: For other than this, that which really is I knew not; and was, as it were thr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For other than this, that which really is I knew not; and was, as it were through sharpness of wit, persuaded to assent to foolish deceivers, when they asked me, \"whence is evil?\" \"is God bounded by a"}, {"id": "card_n_7f8be49dca48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_005: Verecundus was worn down with care about this our blessedness, for that being...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Verecundus was worn down with care about this our blessedness, for that being held back by bonds, whereby he was most straitly bound, he saw that he should be severed from us. For himself was not yet "}, {"id": "card_n_73945193ccef", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_032: But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers in those words, as they are differently understood, so discover that one meaning, as to affirm, \"this Moses thought,\" and \"t"}, {"id": "card_n_e22f66f1455d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_030: Then putting my finger between, or some other mark, I shut the volume, and wi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Then putting my finger between, or some other mark, I shut the volume, and with a calmed countenance made it known to Alypius. And what was wrought in him, which I knew not, he thus showed me. He aske"}, {"id": "card_n_e86ce1a42d1e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_011: But what speak I of these things?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what speak I of these things? for now is no time to question, but to confess unto Thee. Wretched I was; and wretched is every soul bound by the friendship of perishable things; he is torn asunder "}, {"id": "card_n_f9c6185797cd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_012: Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thus with senses (as we see) the frame Thou gavest, compacting its limbs, ornamenting its proportions, and, for its general go"}, {"id": "card_n_1731536929b0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_036: It is in thee, my mind, that I measure times.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is in thee, my mind, that I measure times. Interrupt me not, that is, interrupt not thyself with the tumults of thy impressions. In thee I measure times; the impression, which things as they pass b"}, {"id": "card_n_fcaf2b7a20dd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_023: For if there be so many contrary natures as there be conflicting wills, there...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For if there be so many contrary natures as there be conflicting wills, there shall now be not two only, but many. If a man deliberate whether he should go to their conventicle or to the theatre, thes"}, {"id": "card_n_bbb7d8c54d34", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_019: But now despairing to make proficiency in that false doctrine, even those thi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now despairing to make proficiency in that false doctrine, even those things (with which if I should find no better, I had resolved to rest contented) I now held more laxly and carelessly. For the"}, {"id": "card_n_9d644c0fb4e4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_015: Is there, Lord, any of soul so great, and cleaving to Thee with so intense af...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Is there, Lord, any of soul so great, and cleaving to Thee with so intense affection (for a sort of stupidity will in a way do it); but is there any one who, from cleaving devoutly to Thee, is endued "}, {"id": "card_n_f8ae1fdeb1fd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_020: For hence I believed Evil also to be some such kind of substance, and to have...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For hence I believed Evil also to be some such kind of substance, and to have its own foul and hideous bulk; whether gross, which they called earth, or thin and subtile (like the body of the air), whi"}, {"id": "card_n_a9711b8216ce", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_004: How then should it be called, that it might be in some measure conveyed to th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How then should it be called, that it might be in some measure conveyed to those of duller mind, but by some ordinary word? And what, among all parts of the world can be found nearer to an absolute fo"}, {"id": "card_n_a75d485f6a78", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_023: But that orator was of that sort whom I loved, as wishing to be myself such; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But that orator was of that sort whom I loved, as wishing to be myself such; and I erred through a swelling pride, and was tossed about with every wind, but yet was steered by Thee, though very secret"}, {"id": "card_n_4f123729c557", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_010: Up, Lord, and do; stir us up, and recall us; kindle and draw us; inflame, gro...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Up, Lord, and do; stir us up, and recall us; kindle and draw us; inflame, grow sweet unto us, let us now love, let us run. Do not many, out of a deeper hell of blindness than Victorinus, return to The"}, {"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_b11fd37b562b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_037: I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture minds me of; ye...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture minds me of; yea, I will say, and not fear. For I will say the truth, Thyself inspiring me with what Thou willedst me to deliver out of th"}, {"id": "card_n_8187675c72c5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_011: Blessed creature, which being itself other than Thou, has known no other cond...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Blessed creature, which being itself other than Thou, has known no other condition, than that, so soon as it was made, it was, without any interval, by Thy Gift, Which is borne above every thing chang"}, {"id": "card_n_4ec2f3ff4911", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_021: For what more miserable than a miserable being who commiserates not himself; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For what more miserable than a miserable being who commiserates not himself; weeping the death of Dido for love to Aeneas, but weeping not his own death for want of love to Thee, O God. Thou light of "}, {"id": "card_n_f7e96a29ed3c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_005: For that year were my studies intermitted: whilst after my return from Madaur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For that year were my studies intermitted: whilst after my return from Madaura (a neighbour city, whither I had journeyed to learn grammar and rhetoric), the expenses for a further journey to Carthage"}, {"id": "card_n_8ef01c62e191", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_020: Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such motions as men sometimes would, but cannot, if either they have not the limbs, or these be bound with bands, weakened with"}]}