{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_024: But I saw not yet,", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2d5ec606e174", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_024: But I saw not yet, whereon this weighty matter turned in Thy wisdom, O Thou O...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I saw not yet, whereon this weighty matter turned in Thy wisdom, O Thou Omnipotent, who only doest wonders; and my mind ranged through corporeal forms; and \"fair,\" I defined and distinguished what"}, {"id": "card_n_6ebf8ba5db2d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_014: These things I then knew not, nor observed; they struck my sight on all sides...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things I then knew not, nor observed; they struck my sight on all sides, and I saw them not. I indited verses, in which I might not place every foot every where, but differently in different met"}, {"id": "card_n_c17c03335db6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_004: But I also as yet, although I held and was firmly persuaded that Thou our Lor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I also as yet, although I held and was firmly persuaded that Thou our Lord the true God, who madest not only our souls, but our bodies, and not only our souls and bodies, but all beings, and all t"}, {"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_4dbd7583f710", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_006: Yet many truths concerning the creature retained I from these men, and saw th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Yet many truths concerning the creature retained I from these men, and saw the reason thereof from calculations, the succession of times, and the visible testimonies of the stars; and compared them wi"}, {"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_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_2fcd81d6862d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_014: But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. As yet doth deep call unto deep, but now in the voice of Thy water-spouts. As yet doth he that saith"}, {"id": "card_n_0f38cf3f9f0b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_006: I joyed also that the old Scriptures of the law and the Prophets were laid be...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I joyed also that the old Scriptures of the law and the Prophets were laid before me, not now to be perused with that eye to which before they seemed absurd, when I reviled Thy holy ones for so thinki"}, {"id": "card_n_af6d19f1cfed", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_004: What art Thou then, my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most "}, {"id": "card_n_38ee1dc6bf0b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_006: But while in that my sixteenth year I lived with my parents, leaving all scho...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But while in that my sixteenth year I lived with my parents, leaving all school for a while (a season of idleness being interposed through the narrowness of my parents' fortunes), the briers of unclea"}, {"id": "card_n_6cd6d069475d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_001: Deceased was now that my evil and abominable youth, and I was passing into ea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Deceased was now that my evil and abominable youth, and I was passing into early manhood; the more defiled by vain things as I grew in years, who could not imagine any substance, but such as is wont t"}, {"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_ccbf2a23f514", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_018: And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or to come. A long time past (for example) we call an hundred years since; and a long time to come, an hundred years hence. B"}, {"id": "card_n_5fdb4249401c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_024: Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that only can be seen, which is. But what now is, is not future, but present. When then things to come are said to be seen, it i"}, {"id": "card_n_d8df57262ee0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_033: Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I say: for if he should ask me, \"How know you that Moses thought that which you infer out of his words?\" I ought to take it i"}, {"id": "card_n_9ef9907715cc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_013: Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,--(for whither went it?)--and yet it was no more. For I was no longer a speechless infan"}, {"id": "card_n_4e743297cf2f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_017: At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest. And no times are coeternal with Thee, because Thou abidest; but if they abode, they should not be times. For what is tim"}, {"id": "card_n_96b813bd9ef3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_007: For Thou, Lord, dost judge me: because, although no man knoweth the things of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For Thou, Lord, dost judge me: because, although no man knoweth the things of a man, but the spirit of a man which is in him, yet is there something of man, which neither the spirit of man that is in "}, {"id": "card_n_93a415156425", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_023: Permit me, Lord, to seek further.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Permit me, Lord, to seek further. O my hope, let not my purpose be confounded. For if times past and to come be, I would know where they be. Which yet if I cannot, yet I know, wherever they be, they a"}]}