{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_023: And I wondered that", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fa6ce7542cd8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_022: For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so fast in the birdlime of that pleasure, as to protest (so oft as we discussed it) that I could never lead a single life; and "}, {"id": "card_n_de6027d80165", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_023: And I wondered that I now loved Thee, and no phantasm for Thee.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I wondered that I now loved Thee, and no phantasm for Thee. And yet did I not press on to enjoy my God; but was borne up to Thee by Thy beauty, and soon borne down from Thee by mine own weight, si"}, {"id": "card_n_9de37098c61c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_018: And I, viewing and reviewing things, most wondered at the length of time from...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I, viewing and reviewing things, most wondered at the length of time from that my nineteenth year, wherein I had begun to kindle with the desire of wisdom, settling when I had found her, to abando"}, {"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_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_f9b38fafa702", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_016: Him then I had found at Rome, and he clave to me by a most strong tie, and we...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Him then I had found at Rome, and he clave to me by a most strong tie, and went with me to Milan, both that he might not leave me, and might practise something of the law he had studied, more to pleas"}, {"id": "card_n_a635af206bdf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_027: For true it is, O Lord, that Thou madest heaven and earth; and it is true too...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For true it is, O Lord, that Thou madest heaven and earth; and it is true too, that the Beginning is Thy Wisdom, in Which Thou createst all: and true again, that this visible world hath for its greate"}, {"id": "card_n_2288684e8c31", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_014: Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God. 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Yea we also see the same, and behold, all things are very good. Of the several kinds of Thy works, when Thou ha"}, {"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_7fd6c8a8e758", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_014: These things do I within, in that vast court of my memory.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things do I within, in that vast court of my memory. For there are present with me, heaven, earth, sea, and whatever I could think on therein, besides what I have forgotten. There also meet I wi"}, {"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_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_5e0f6c2de60d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_008: How did I burn then, my God, how did I burn to re-mount from earthly things t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How did I burn then, my God, how did I burn to re-mount from earthly things to Thee, nor knew I what Thou wouldest do with me? For with Thee is wisdom. But the love of wisdom is in Greek called \"philo"}]}