{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_007: Good God!", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_25693c20df48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_042: And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was very good. 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_f34b7ca6db45", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_045: But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them. Therefore when they see that these things are good, Thou seest that they are good; and whatsoever things for Thy sake please, Thou plea"}, {"id": "card_n_4dae2cc029a5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_030: For should any attempt to dispute against these two last opinions, thus, \"If ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For should any attempt to dispute against these two last opinions, thus, \"If you will not allow, that this formlessness of matter seems to be called by the name of heaven and earth; Ergo, there was so"}, {"id": "card_n_d5c40d3246d4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_052: We therefore see these things which Thou madest, because they are: but they a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We therefore see these things which Thou madest, because they are: but they are, because Thou seest them. And we see without, that they are, and within, that they are good, but Thou sawest them there,"}, {"id": "card_n_27e96c084111", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_034: Yet, Lord, to Thee, the Creator and Governor of the universe, most excellent ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Yet, Lord, to Thee, the Creator and Governor of the universe, most excellent and most good, thanks were due to Thee our God, even hadst Thou destined for me boyhood only. For even then I was, I lived,"}, {"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_83ed5c42862e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_021: This great gift also thou bestowedst, O my God, my mercy, upon that good hand...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This great gift also thou bestowedst, O my God, my mercy, upon that good handmaid of Thine, in whose womb Thou createdst me, that between any disagreeing and discordant parties where she was able, she"}, {"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_51f8a7d4e0b1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_006: For I was in such wise striving to find out the rest, as one who had already ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For I was in such wise striving to find out the rest, as one who had already found that the incorruptible must needs be better than the corruptible: and Thee therefore, whatsoever Thou wert, I confess"}, {"id": "card_n_e0ed2bc574dc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_012: What then did wretched I so love in thee, thou theft of mine, thou deed of da...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then did wretched I so love in thee, thou theft of mine, thou deed of darkness, in that sixteenth year of my age? Lovely thou wert not, because thou wert theft. But art thou any thing, that thus "}, {"id": "card_n_af6d19f1cfed", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_004: What art Thou then, my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most "}, {"id": "card_n_382716b879d2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_022: Let them perish from Thy presence, O God, as perish vain talkers and seducers...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let them perish from Thy presence, O God, as perish vain talkers and seducers of the soul: who observing that in deliberating there were two wills, affirm that there are two minds in us of two kinds, "}, {"id": "card_n_09bc648ac1eb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_023: But first, wash you, be clean; put away evil from your souls, and from before...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But first, wash you, be clean; put away evil from your souls, and from before mine eyes, that the dry land may appear. Learn to do good, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow, that the earth may b"}, {"id": "card_n_76413f9f7d97", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_021: \"What say ye to me, O ye gainsayers that I was speaking unto, who yet believe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"What say ye to me, O ye gainsayers that I was speaking unto, who yet believe Moses to have been the holy servant of God, and his books the oracles of the Holy Ghost? Is not this house of God, not coe"}, {"id": "card_n_13d27a699b67", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_031: For behold, O Lord, our God, our Creator, when our affections have been restr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For behold, O Lord, our God, our Creator, when our affections have been restrained from the love of the world, by which we died through evil-living; and begun to be a living soul, through good living;"}, {"id": "card_n_759aedc84945", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_049: O Lord God, give peace unto us: (for Thou hast given us all things;) the peac...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord God, give peace unto us: (for Thou hast given us all things;) the peace of rest, the peace of the Sabbath, which hath no evening. For all this most goodly array of things very good, having fini"}, {"id": "card_n_c535def84bb6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_030: But Thy word, O God, is the fountain of life eternal; and passeth not away: w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But Thy word, O God, is the fountain of life eternal; and passeth not away: wherefore this departure of the soul is restrained by Thy word, when it is said unto us, Be not conformed unto this world; t"}, {"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_f9c6185797cd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_012: Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thus with senses (as we see) the frame Thou gavest, compacting its limbs, ornamenting its proportions, and, for its general go"}, {"id": "card_n_12f1a7ad5edc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_042: Lastly, O Lord, who art God and not flesh and blood, if man did see less, cou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lastly, O Lord, who art God and not flesh and blood, if man did see less, could any thing be concealed from Thy good Spirit (who shall lead me into the land of uprightness), which Thou Thyself by thos"}]}