{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_023: For if there be so", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_fcaf2b7a20dd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_023: For if there be so many contrary natures as there be conflicting wills, there...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For if there be so many contrary natures as there be conflicting wills, there shall now be not two only, but many. 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Hearken thou too. The Word itself calleth thee to return: and there is the place of rest imperturbabl"}, {"id": "card_n_91aee00da40a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_022: I ask, Father, I affirm not: O my God, rule and guide me.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I ask, Father, I affirm not: O my God, rule and guide me. \"Who will tell me that there are not three times (as we learned when boys, and taught boys), past, present, and future; but present only, beca"}, {"id": "card_n_eae82aebe866", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_014: There is, behold, I know not what formlessness in those changes of these last...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There is, behold, I know not what formlessness in those changes of these last and lowest creatures; and who shall tell me (unless such a one as through the emptiness of his own heart, wonders and toss"}, {"id": "card_n_592b275b3694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_021: Whence is this monstrousness?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me. Whence is t"}, {"id": "card_n_93a415156425", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_023: Permit me, Lord, to seek further.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Permit me, Lord, to seek further. O my hope, let not my purpose be confounded. For if times past and to come be, I would know where they be. Which yet if I cannot, yet I know, wherever they be, they a"}, {"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 "}]}