{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_002: When then my mother", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_5d517d027d18", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_002: When then my mother had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Church...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When then my mother had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Churches built in memory of the Saints, certain cakes, and bread and wine, and was forbidden by the door-keeper; so soon as she k"}, {"id": "card_n_4a0571faea3e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_007: In those years when I first began to teach rhetoric in my native town, I had ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In those years when I first began to teach rhetoric in my native town, I had made one my friend, but too dear to me, from a community of pursuits, of mine own age, and, as myself, in the first opening"}, {"id": "card_n_b1673ad3a7e6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_007: Woe is me!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Woe is me! and dare I say that Thou heldest Thy peace, O my God, while I wandered further from Thee? Didst Thou then indeed hold Thy peace to me? And whose but Thine were these words which by my mothe"}, {"id": "card_n_1a167f13593c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_008: Oh, in what accents spake I unto Thee, my God, when I read the Psalms of Davi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Oh, in what accents spake I unto Thee, my God, when I read the Psalms of David, those faithful songs, and sounds of devotion, which allow of no swelling spirit, as yet a Catechumen, and a novice in Th"}, {"id": "card_n_0dde46e47217", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_017: As a boy, then, I had already heard of an eternal life, promised us through t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "As a boy, then, I had already heard of an eternal life, promised us through the humility of the Lord our God stooping to our pride; and even from the womb of my mother, who greatly hoped in Thee, I wa"}, {"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_d1a719fd2d81", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_020: Whence was this also, that when she had told me this vision, and I would fain...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence was this also, that when she had told me this vision, and I would fain bend it to mean, \"That she rather should not despair of being one day what I was\"; she presently, without any hesitation, "}, {"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_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_48cee29e5ce3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_038: May she rest then in peace with the husband before and after whom she had nev...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "May she rest then in peace with the husband before and after whom she had never any; whom she obeyed, with patience bringing forth fruit unto Thee, that she might win him also unto Thee. And inspire, "}, {"id": "card_n_4e156f119451", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_021: Thou gavest her meantime another answer, which I call to mind; for much I pas...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou gavest her meantime another answer, which I call to mind; for much I pass by, hasting to those things which more press me to confess unto Thee, and much I do not remember. Thou gavest her then an"}, {"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_0bc7bc4c912f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_034: And then by little and little I recovered my former thoughts of Thy handmaid,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And then by little and little I recovered my former thoughts of Thy handmaid, her holy conversation towards Thee, her holy tenderness and observance towards us, whereof I was suddenly deprived: and I "}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_7f7c436dc87e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_007: Now was the day come wherein I was in deed to be freed of my Rhetoric Profess...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now was the day come wherein I was in deed to be freed of my Rhetoric Professorship, whereof in thought I was already freed. And it was done. Thou didst rescue my tongue, whence Thou hadst before resc"}, {"id": "card_n_7e927528cb6b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_002: And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come"}, {"id": "card_n_2b5e67eb1e94", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_021: The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same mann...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same manner that my mind itself contains them, when it feels them; but far otherwise, according to a power of its own. For without r"}]}