{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_017: I see not then how", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_534611934a3f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_031: Dost Thou bid me assent, if any define time to be \"motion of a body?\" Thou do...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Dost Thou bid me assent, if any define time to be \"motion of a body?\" Thou dost not bid me. For that no body is moved, but in time, I hear; this Thou sayest; but that the motion of a body is time, I h"}, {"id": "card_n_cfc7b686f54a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_057: Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curios...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Notwithstanding, in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount? How often do we begin as if we were tolerating people tellin"}, {"id": "card_n_acfe6552fbc5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_017: I see not then how she should have been healed, had such a death of mine stri...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I see not then how she should have been healed, had such a death of mine stricken through the bowels of her love. And where would have been those her so strong and unceasing prayers, unintermitting to"}, {"id": "card_n_4238ca3f54f2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_060: By these temptations we are assailed daily, O Lord; without ceasing are we as...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "By these temptations we are assailed daily, O Lord; without ceasing are we assailed. Our daily furnace is the tongue of men. And in this way also Thou commandest us continence. Give what Thou enjoines"}, {"id": "card_n_a3a1b3523d4a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_015: Great is this force of memory, excessive great, O my God; a large and boundle...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great is this force of memory, excessive great, O my God; a large and boundless chamber! who ever sounded the bottom thereof? yet is this a power of mine, and belongs unto my nature; nor do I myself c"}, {"id": "card_n_12f1a7ad5edc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_042: Lastly, O Lord, who art God and not flesh and blood, if man did see less, cou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lastly, O Lord, who art God and not flesh and blood, if man did see less, could any thing be concealed from Thy good Spirit (who shall lead me into the land of uprightness), which Thou Thyself by thos"}, {"id": "card_n_9adf884ca117", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_020: See how the present time, which alone we found could be called long, is abrid...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "See how the present time, which alone we found could be called long, is abridged to the length scarce of one day. But let us examine that also; because neither is one day present as a whole. For it is"}, {"id": "card_n_e801b85240d9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_012: Which of us comprehendeth the Almighty Trinity?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Which of us comprehendeth the Almighty Trinity? and yet which speaks not of It, if indeed it be It? Rare is the soul, which while it speaks of It, knows what it speaks of. And they contend and strive,"}, {"id": "card_n_59702ef11ed3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_002: Let the restless, the godless, depart and flee from Thee; yet Thou seest them...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let the restless, the godless, depart and flee from Thee; yet Thou seest them, and dividest the darkness. And behold, the universe with them is fair, though they are foul. And how have they injured Th"}, {"id": "card_n_f34b7ca6db45", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_045: But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them. Therefore when they see that these things are good, Thou seest that they are good; and whatsoever things for Thy sake please, Thou plea"}, {"id": "card_n_b9c13a8b9681", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_010: Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God? I see it in a way; but how to express it, I know not, unless it be, that whatsoever begins to be, and leaves off to be, begins then, and leaves off then, when in Th"}, {"id": "card_n_3fb5ee50a72f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_029: How then do I seek Thee, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How then do I seek Thee, O Lord? For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul; and my soul by Thee. How then do I seek a ha"}, {"id": "card_n_9c54052ac290", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_043: And I looked narrowly to find, whether seven, or eight times Thou sawest that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I looked narrowly to find, whether seven, or eight times Thou sawest that Thy works were good, when they pleased Thee; but in Thy seeing I found no times, whereby I might understand that Thou sawe"}, {"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_6f3da3abfe46", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_054: To this is added another form of temptation more manifoldly dangerous.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To this is added another form of temptation more manifoldly dangerous. For besides that concupiscence of the flesh which consisteth in the delight of all senses and pleasures, wherein its slaves, who "}, {"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_f02c31493568", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_032: And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that I know that I speak this in time, and that having long spoken of time, that very \"long\" is "}, {"id": "card_n_2f05f5f9c92e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_033: Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times? Do I then measure, O my God, and know not what I measure? I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not m"}, {"id": "card_n_7d2053658b1e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_011: Where then wert Thou then to me, and how far from me?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Where then wert Thou then to me, and how far from me? Far verily was I straying from Thee, barred from the very husks of the swine, whom with husks I fed. For how much better are the fables of poets a"}, {"id": "card_n_f784aa08ea5d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_012: O madness, which knowest not how to love men, like men!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O madness, which knowest not how to love men, like men! O foolish man that I then was, enduring impatiently the lot of man! I fretted then, sighed, wept, was distracted; had neither rest nor counsel. "}]}