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We behold the heaven and earth, whether the corporeal part, superior and inferior, or the spiritual and corporeal creature; and in the adorning of these parts, whereof the univ"}, {"id": "card_n_2a5f4bc5373e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_008: Hence let him that is able, follow with his understanding Thy Apostle, where ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hence let him that is able, follow with his understanding Thy Apostle, where he thus speaks, Because Thy love is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us: and where concernin"}, {"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_62a3a9c2e539", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_030: I desire to know the force and nature of time, by which we measure the motion...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I desire to know the force and nature of time, by which we measure the motions of bodies, and say (for example) this motion is twice as long as that. For I ask, Seeing \"day\" denotes not the stay only "}, {"id": "card_n_7c28f050602b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_026: But having then read those books of the Platonists, and thence been taught to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But having then read those books of the Platonists, and thence been taught to search for incorporeal truth, I saw Thy invisible things, understood by those things which are made; and though cast back,"}, {"id": "card_n_a11b43679b2b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_016: And being thence admonished to return to myself, I entered even into my inwar...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And being thence admonished to return to myself, I entered even into my inward self, Thou being my Guide: and able I was, for Thou wert become my Helper. And I entered and beheld with the eye of my so"}, {"id": "card_n_f73877a9def8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_037: But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not? or how that past increased, which is now no longer, save that in the mind which enacteth this, there be three things done? For it ex"}, {"id": "card_n_de5c26ee42b0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_040: In this diversity of the true opinions, let Truth herself produce concord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In this diversity of the true opinions, let Truth herself produce concord. And our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity. By this if man de"}, {"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_0c0c634ebee1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_007: And I sought \"whence is evil,\" and sought in an evil way; and saw not the evi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I sought \"whence is evil,\" and sought in an evil way; and saw not the evil in my very search. I set now before the sight of my spirit the whole creation, whatsoever we can see therein (as sea, ear"}, {"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_68d90e7cc7a4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_018: Wherefore we find, that to learn these things whereof we imbibe not the image...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Wherefore we find, that to learn these things whereof we imbibe not the images by our senses, but perceive within by themselves, without images, as they are, is nothing else, but by conception, to rec"}, {"id": "card_n_764bd12dea2d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_044: This hast Thou taught me, that I should set myself to take food as physic.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This hast Thou taught me, that I should set myself to take food as physic. 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