{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_009: At this grief my he", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_07c8246e46f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_009: At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death. My native country was a torment to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness; and whatever I had shared with him, wa"}, {"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_d2e50284c7f6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_027: What answer I made her unto these things, I remember not.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What answer I made her unto these things, I remember not. For scarce five days after, or not much more, she fell sick of a fever; and in that sickness one day she fell into a swoon, and was for a whil"}, {"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_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. 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Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no m"}, {"id": "card_n_fa6ce7542cd8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_022: For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so fast in the birdlime of that pleasure, as to protest (so oft as we discussed it) that I could never lead a single life; and "}, {"id": "card_n_25ca17495cba", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_040: Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity? Rejoiceth he for that? Verily not for that. But how know we this? Because himself says immediately, not because I desire a g"}, {"id": "card_n_8c228cf64f65", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_019: \"But our true Life came down hither, and bore our death, and slew him, out of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"But our true Life came down hither, and bore our death, and slew him, out of the abundance of His own life: and He thundered, calling aloud to us to return hence to Him into that secret place, whence"}, {"id": "card_n_b748216438ed", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_033: This was the world at whose gate unhappy I lay in my boyhood; this the stage ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This was the world at whose gate unhappy I lay in my boyhood; this the stage where I had feared more to commit a barbarism, than having committed one, to envy those who had not. These things I speak a"}, {"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_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_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"}, {"id": "card_n_ccacee0e5831", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_035: And yet I, O my God, Thou lifter up of my humility, and rest of my labour, Wh...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet I, O my God, Thou lifter up of my humility, and rest of my labour, Who hearest my confessions, and forgivest my sins: seeing Thou commandest me to love my neighbour as myself, I cannot believe"}, {"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_73afd63688ab", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_019: Then in this great contention of my inward dwelling, which I had strongly rai...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Then in this great contention of my inward dwelling, which I had strongly raised against my soul, in the chamber of my heart, troubled in mind and countenance, I turned upon Alypius. \"What ails us?\" I"}]}