{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_016: And lo, there was I", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_09118272b605", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_016: And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was goi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was going down to hell, carrying all the sins which I had committed, both against Thee, and myself, and others, many and grievous,"}, {"id": "card_n_5232a0af5850", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_034: Courage, my mind, and press on mightily.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Courage, my mind, and press on mightily. God is our helper, He made us, and not we ourselves. Press on where truth begins to dawn. 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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_a7302e4834d8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_009: And, lo!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And, lo! my infancy died long since, and I live. But Thou, Lord, who for ever livest, and in whom nothing dies: for before the foundation of the worlds, and before all that can be called \"before,\" Tho"}, {"id": "card_n_de6027d80165", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_023: And I wondered that I now loved Thee, and no phantasm for Thee.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I wondered that I now loved Thee, and no phantasm for Thee. And yet did I not press on to enjoy my God; but was borne up to Thee by Thy beauty, and soon borne down from Thee by mine own weight, si"}, {"id": "card_n_2288684e8c31", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_014: Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God. But that the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, I read"}, {"id": "card_n_2fa7e2abe99b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_020: These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sinking to the very depths, and to my friends I said, \"Do we love any thing but the beautiful? 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