{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_011: Now then, O my Help", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_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_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_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_2a9d8a4351e6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_001: I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my so...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul; not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love I do it; reviewing my most wicked way"}, {"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_c55b37eee6ab", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_016: What fruit had I then (wretched man!) in those things, of the remembrance whe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What fruit had I then (wretched man!) in those things, of the remembrance whereof I am now ashamed? Especially, in that theft which I loved for the theft's sake; and it too was nothing, and therefore "}, {"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_7cbe9eedb8d9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_011: Now then, O my Helper, hadst Thou loosed me from those fetters: and I sought ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now then, O my Helper, hadst Thou loosed me from those fetters: and I sought \"whence is evil,\" and found no way. But Thou sufferedst me not by any fluctuations of thought to be carried away from the F"}, {"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_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_a84edfe2920a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_003: O Lord my God, give ear unto my prayer, and let Thy mercy hearken unto my des...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord my God, give ear unto my prayer, and let Thy mercy hearken unto my desire: because it is anxious not for myself alone, but would serve brotherly charity; and Thou seest my heart, that so it is."}, {"id": "card_n_f38cd38ffe3e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_070: Affrighted with my sins and the burden of my misery, I had cast in my heart, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Affrighted with my sins and the burden of my misery, I had cast in my heart, and had purposed to flee to the wilderness: but Thou forbadest me, and strengthenedst me, saying, Therefore Christ died for"}, {"id": "card_n_44fcbdff115e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_022: With these I now parley a little in Thy presence, O my God, who grant all the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "With these I now parley a little in Thy presence, O my God, who grant all these things to be true, which Thy Truth whispers unto my soul. For those who deny these things, let them bark and deafen them"}, {"id": "card_n_45c323384ad4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_005: And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of our doing ill, and Thy just judgment of our suffering ill. But I was not able clearly to discern it. So then endeavouring t"}, {"id": "card_n_dabe5995cdb5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_039: But because Thy loving-kindness is better than all lives, behold, my life is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But because Thy loving-kindness is better than all lives, behold, my life is but a distraction, and Thy right hand upheld me, in my Lord the Son of man, the Mediator betwixt Thee, The One, and us many"}, {"id": "card_n_934645b2b6b4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_004: But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by doing it. For the confessions of my past sins, which Thou hast forgiven and covered, that Thou mightest bless me in Thee, "}, {"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"}]}