{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_024: And many of us frie", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4f123729c557", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_010: Up, Lord, and do; stir us up, and recall us; kindle and draw us; inflame, gro...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Up, Lord, and do; stir us up, and recall us; kindle and draw us; inflame, grow sweet unto us, let us now love, let us run. Do not many, out of a deeper hell of blindness than Victorinus, return to The"}, {"id": "card_n_dae983dcdf6c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_069: How hast Thou loved us, good Father, who sparedst not Thine only Son, but del...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How hast Thou loved us, good Father, who sparedst not Thine only Son, but deliveredst Him up for us ungodly! 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Why then do I lay in order before Thee so many relations? Not, of a truth, that "}, {"id": "card_n_03221ffe3065", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_024: And many of us friends conferring about, and detesting the turbulent turmoils...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And many of us friends conferring about, and detesting the turbulent turmoils of human life, had debated and now almost resolved on living apart from business and the bustle of men; and this was to be"}, {"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. 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But that the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, I read"}, {"id": "card_n_8c228cf64f65", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_019: \"But our true Life came down hither, and bore our death, and slew him, out of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"But our true Life came down hither, and bore our death, and slew him, out of the abundance of His own life: and He thundered, calling aloud to us to return hence to Him into that secret place, whence"}, {"id": "card_n_4ef2a6f26178", "title": "1 Clement XXI", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Take heed, beloved, lest His many kindnesses lead to the condemnation of us all. [For thus it must be] unless we walk worthy of Him, and with one mind do those things which are good and well-pleasing "}, {"id": "card_n_9565c84fbfed", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_044: And I heard, O Lord my God, and drank up a drop of sweetness out of Thy truth...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I heard, O Lord my God, and drank up a drop of sweetness out of Thy truth, and understood, that certain men there be who mislike Thy works; and say, that many of them Thou madest, compelled by nec"}, {"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_8032b7b5b51f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_022: Finally, her own husband, towards the very end of his earthly life, did she g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Finally, her own husband, towards the very end of his earthly life, did she gain unto Thee; nor had she to complain of that in him as a believer, which before he was a believer she had borne from him."}, {"id": "card_n_de5c26ee42b0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_040: In this diversity of the true opinions, let Truth herself produce concord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In this diversity of the true opinions, let Truth herself produce concord. And our God have mercy upon us, that we may use the law lawfully, the end of the commandment, pure charity. By this if man de"}, {"id": "card_n_7e891a819d77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_007: Being led, however, from this to prefer the Catholic doctrine, I felt that he...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Being led, however, from this to prefer the Catholic doctrine, I felt that her proceeding was more unassuming and honest, in that she required to be believed things not demonstrated (whether it was th"}, {"id": "card_n_d5ad2bcf74a9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_056: In this so vast wilderness, full of snares and dangers, behold many of them I...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In this so vast wilderness, full of snares and dangers, behold many of them I have cut off, and thrust out of my heart, as Thou hast given me, O God of my salvation. And yet when dare I say, since so "}, {"id": "card_n_c93472531537", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_026: Speak I untruly, or do I mingle and confound, and not distinguish between the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Speak I untruly, or do I mingle and confound, and not distinguish between the lucid knowledge of these things in the firmament of heaven, and the material works in the wavy sea, and under the firmamen"}, {"id": "card_n_a5aa22221d3c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_048: We have also examined what Thou willedst to be shadowed forth, whether by the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We have also examined what Thou willedst to be shadowed forth, whether by the creation, or the relation of things in such an order. And we have seen, that things singly are good, and together very goo"}, {"id": "card_n_c42c7b0d6437", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_031: But what did this further me, imagining that Thou, O Lord God, the Truth, wer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what did this further me, imagining that Thou, O Lord God, the Truth, wert a vast and bright body, and I a fragment of that body? Perverseness too great! But such was I. Nor do I blush, O my God, "}]}