{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_009: Upon hearing and be", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_4c8abd61944b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_051: There remains the pleasure of these eyes of my flesh, on which to make my con...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There remains the pleasure of these eyes of my flesh, on which to make my confessions in the hearing of the ears of Thy temple, those brotherly and devout ears; and so to conclude the temptations of t"}, {"id": "card_n_3881d3254abb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_030: But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it? No. For a happy life is not seen with the eye, because it is not a body. As we remember numbers then? 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But hearing what "}, {"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_50e60fde274b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_009: Upon hearing and believing these things, told by one of such credibility, all...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Upon hearing and believing these things, told by one of such credibility, all that my resistance gave way; and first I endeavoured to reclaim Firminus himself from that curiosity, by telling him that "}, {"id": "card_n_1d3923aa7428", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_004: For with their understanding and wit, which Thou bestowedst on them, they sea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For with their understanding and wit, which Thou bestowedst on them, they search out these things; and much have they found out; and foretold, many years before, eclipses of those luminaries, the sun "}, {"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_c4ebdd8a6f8b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_029: Now then let Thy ministers work upon the earth,--not as upon the waters of in...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now then let Thy ministers work upon the earth,--not as upon the waters of infidelity, by preaching and speaking by miracles, and Sacraments, and mystic words; wherein ignorance, the mother of admirat"}, {"id": "card_n_5d5608da1ea3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_029: And with regard to the understanding of the words following, out of all those...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And with regard to the understanding of the words following, out of all those truths, he chooses one to himself, who saith, But the earth was invisible, and without form, and darkness was upon the dee"}, {"id": "card_n_743beeda783f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_025: Thus soul-sick was I, and tormented, accusing myself much more severely than ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thus soul-sick was I, and tormented, accusing myself much more severely than my wont, rolling and turning me in my chain, till that were wholly broken, whereby I now was but just, but still was, held."}, {"id": "card_n_2fcd81d6862d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_014: But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. 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Fors"}, {"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_be1f34c3c2ff", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_007: But what was the cause, O true-speaking Light?--unto Thee lift I up my heart,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what was the cause, O true-speaking Light?--unto Thee lift I up my heart, let it not teach me vanities, dispel its darkness; and tell me, I beseech Thee, by our mother charity, tell me the reason,"}, {"id": "card_n_c43704840de6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_013: Who speak thus, do not yet understand Thee, O Wisdom of God, Light of souls, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Who speak thus, do not yet understand Thee, O Wisdom of God, Light of souls, understand not yet how the things be made, which by Thee, and in Thee are made: yet they strive to comprehend things eterna"}, {"id": "card_n_cedbd8729980", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_024: And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delig...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And when our discourse was brought to that point, that the very highest delight of the earthly senses, in the very purest material light, was, in respect of the sweetness of that life, not only not wo"}, {"id": "card_n_67b636962c22", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_002: And what was it that I delighted in, but to love, and be loved?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And what was it that I delighted in, but to love, and be loved? but I kept not the measure of love, of mind to mind, friendship's bright boundary: but out of the muddy concupiscence of the flesh, and "}, {"id": "card_n_3b0dc31a8c38", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_006: But I, Lord, if I would, by my tongue and my pen, confess unto Thee the whole...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I, Lord, if I would, by my tongue and my pen, confess unto Thee the whole, whatever Thyself hath taught me of that matter,--the name whereof hearing before, and not understanding, when they who un"}, {"id": "card_n_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, "}]}