{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_026: To Thee be praise,", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_dec5b14dc67b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_001: Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality,"}, {"id": "card_n_374ddecdd1fb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_010: I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first ru...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess muc"}, {"id": "card_n_a31688f13822", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_062: Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praise...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praises, for my own sake, but for the good of my neighbour. And whether it be so with me, I know not. For herein I know less of m"}, {"id": "card_n_a18fb11e68a1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_026: To Thee be praise, glory to Thee, Fountain of mercies.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To Thee be praise, glory to Thee, Fountain of mercies. I was becoming more miserable, and Thou nearer. Thy right hand was continually ready to pluck me out of the mire, and to wash me thoroughly, and "}, {"id": "card_n_1f48bfb3616e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_061: What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord? What, but that I am delighted with praise, but with truth itself, more than with praise? For were it proposed to me, whether I woul"}, {"id": "card_n_e2a1059d4f5d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_019: And to Thee is nothing whatsoever evil: yea, not only to Thee, but also to Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And to Thee is nothing whatsoever evil: yea, not only to Thee, but also to Thy creation as a whole, because there is nothing without, which may break in, and corrupt that order which Thou hast appoint"}, {"id": "card_n_28b8b189dc3f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_018: If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for "}, {"id": "card_n_34a8dc4d3d92", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_036: I therefore, O my Praise and my Life, God of my heart, laying aside for a whi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I therefore, O my Praise and my Life, God of my heart, laying aside for a while her good deeds, for which I give thanks to Thee with joy, do now beseech Thee for the sins of my mother. Hearken unto me"}, {"id": "card_n_5c5443043503", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_003: How did corporeal matter deserve of Thee, to be even invisible and without form?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How did corporeal matter deserve of Thee, to be even invisible and without form? seeing it were not even this, but that Thou madest it, and therefore because it was not, could not deserve of Thee to b"}, {"id": "card_n_2e1a46af1761", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_001: For this space of nine years (from my nineteenth year to my eight-and-twentie...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For this space of nine years (from my nineteenth year to my eight-and-twentieth) we lived seduced and seducing, deceived and deceiving, in divers lusts; openly, by sciences which they call liberal; se"}, {"id": "card_n_392f5d9647b4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_027: Most eagerly then did I seize that venerable writing of Thy Spirit; and chief...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Most eagerly then did I seize that venerable writing of Thy Spirit; and chiefly the Apostle Paul. Whereupon those difficulties vanished away, wherein he once seemed to me to contradict himself, and th"}, {"id": "card_n_3f1666c71e9b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_035: But now, with a heart cured of that wound, wherein it might seem blameworthy ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now, with a heart cured of that wound, wherein it might seem blameworthy for an earthly feeling, I pour out unto Thee, our God, in behalf of that Thy handmaid, a far different kind of tears, flowi"}, {"id": "card_n_69eb8810552c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_046: Thou hast taught me, good Father, that to the pure, all things are pure; but ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou hast taught me, good Father, that to the pure, all things are pure; but that it is evil unto the man that eateth with offence; and, that every creature of Thine is good, and nothing to be refused"}, {"id": "card_n_c3ca8e5c3a1f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_047: Let Thy works praise Thee, that we may love Thee; and let us love Thee, that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let Thy works praise Thee, that we may love Thee; and let us love Thee, that Thy works may praise Thee, which from time have beginning and ending, rising and setting, growth and decay, form and privat"}, {"id": "card_n_cee94141b069", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_018: Other waters there be above this firmament, I believe immortal, and separated...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Other waters there be above this firmament, I believe immortal, and separated from earthly corruption. Let them praise Thy Name, let them praise Thee, the supercelestial people, Thine angels, who have"}, {"id": "card_n_8859147da93b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_001: I call upon Thee, O my God, my mercy, Who createdst me, and forgottest not me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I call upon Thee, O my God, my mercy, Who createdst me, and forgottest not me, forgetting Thee. I call Thee into my soul which, by the longing Thyself inspirest into her, Thou preparest for Thee. Fors"}, {"id": "card_n_e1a80474b5bd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_001: Accept the sacrifice of my confessions from the ministry of my tongue, which ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Accept the sacrifice of my confessions from the ministry of my tongue, which Thou hast formed and stirred up to confess unto Thy name. Heal Thou all my bones, and let them say, O Lord, who is like unt"}, {"id": "card_n_4433e20e3c89", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_026: But I pressed towards Thee, and was thrust from Thee, that I might taste of d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I pressed towards Thee, and was thrust from Thee, that I might taste of death: for thou resistest the proud. But what prouder, than for me with a strange madness to maintain myself to be that by n"}, {"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_e86a2e803e68", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_002: For of the fulness of Thy goodness, doth Thy creature subsist, that so a good...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For of the fulness of Thy goodness, doth Thy creature subsist, that so a good, which could no ways profit Thee, nor was of Thee (lest so it should be equal to Thee), might yet be since it could be mad"}]}