{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_023: When therefore they", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_95f6231ca650", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_034: But why doth \"truth generate hatred,\" and the man of Thine, preaching the tru...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why doth \"truth generate hatred,\" and the man of Thine, preaching the truth, become an enemy to them? whereas a happy life is loved, which is nothing else but joying in the truth; unless that trut"}, {"id": "card_n_202888449903", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_016: Nor dost Thou by time, precede time: else shouldest Thou not precede all times.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Nor dost Thou by time, precede time: else shouldest Thou not precede all times. But Thou precedest all things past, by the sublimity of an ever-present eternity; and surpassest all future because they"}, {"id": "card_n_d5c40d3246d4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_052: We therefore see these things which Thou madest, because they are: but they a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We therefore see these things which Thou madest, because they are: but they are, because Thou seest them. And we see without, that they are, and within, that they are good, but Thou sawest them there,"}, {"id": "card_n_096b4b14fba0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_010: And for almost all those nine years, wherein with unsettled mind I had been t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And for almost all those nine years, wherein with unsettled mind I had been their disciple, I had longed but too intensely for the coming of this Faustus. 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Do not many, out of a deeper hell of blindness than Victorinus, return to The"}, {"id": "card_n_6578738612f7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_019: The memory containeth also reasons and laws innumerable of numbers and dimens...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The memory containeth also reasons and laws innumerable of numbers and dimensions, none of which hath any bodily sense impressed; seeing they have neither colour, nor sound, nor taste, nor smell, nor "}, {"id": "card_n_207a041c74c6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_018: And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrup...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrupted; which neither were they sovereignly good, nor unless they were good could be corrupted: for if sovereignly good, they "}, {"id": "card_n_38a0eb4f19cf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_015: Turn us, O God of Hosts, show us Thy countenance, and we shall be whole.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Turn us, O God of Hosts, show us Thy countenance, and we shall be whole. For whithersoever the soul of man turns itself, unless toward Thee, it is riveted upon sorrows, yea though it is riveted on thi"}, {"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_b7b63fb45423", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_023: When therefore they of Milan had sent to Rome to the prefect of the city, to ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When therefore they of Milan had sent to Rome to the prefect of the city, to furnish them with a rhetoric reader for their city, and sent him at the public expense, I made application (through those v"}, {"id": "card_n_d29fb9fe8a9a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_010: Therefore I fell among men proudly doting, exceeding carnal and prating, in w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Therefore I fell among men proudly doting, exceeding carnal and prating, in whose mouths were the snares of the Devil, limed with the mixture of the syllables of Thy name, and of our Lord Jesus Christ"}, {"id": "card_n_8b14d9b3f11a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_041: I will then speak what is true in Thy sight, O Lord, that when carnal men and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I will then speak what is true in Thy sight, O Lord, that when carnal men and infidels (for the gaining and initiating whom, the initiatory Sacraments and the mighty workings of miracles are necessary"}, {"id": "card_n_7e26a23a1508", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_022: But, behold, out of my memory I bring it, when I say there be four perturbati...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But, behold, out of my memory I bring it, when I say there be four perturbations of the mind, desire, joy, fear, sorrow; and whatsoever I can dispute thereon, by dividing each into its subordinate spe"}, {"id": "card_n_b1436f2d5b2a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_005: But they knew not the way, Thy Word, by Whom Thou madest these things which t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they knew not the way, Thy Word, by Whom Thou madest these things which they number, and themselves who number, and the sense whereby they perceive what they number, and the understanding, out of "}, {"id": "card_n_79438d46108b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_040: And now will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy truth; nor wi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now will I stand, and become firm in Thee, in my mould, Thy truth; nor will I endure the questions of men, who by a penal disease thirst for more than they can contain, and say, \"what did God befo"}, {"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_b137eb3446f3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_015: Can it at any time or place be unjust to love God with all his heart, with al...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Can it at any time or place be unjust to love God with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his mind; and his neighbour as himself? Therefore are those foul offences which be against nature,"}, {"id": "card_n_8fcb53d51da5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_027: I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to say, this time is twice so much as that one; or, this is just so much as that; and so of any other parts of time, which be m"}, {"id": "card_n_8087d5daa7d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_003: What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if they could heal all my infirmities--a race, curious to know the lives of others, slothful to amend their own? Why seek they"}]}