{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_036: I therefore, O my P", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_34a8dc4d3d92", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_036: I therefore, O my Praise and my Life, God of my heart, laying aside for a whi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I therefore, O my Praise and my Life, God of my heart, laying aside for a while her good deeds, for which I give thanks to Thee with joy, do now beseech Thee for the sins of my mother. Hearken unto me"}, {"id": "card_n_1d034ae94589", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_006: Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall clean"}, {"id": "card_n_97c7809f3d80", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_028: My soul is on fire to know this most intricate enigma.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My soul is on fire to know this most intricate enigma. Shut it not up, O Lord my God, good Father; through Christ I beseech Thee, do not shut up these usual, yet hidden things, from my desire, that it"}, {"id": "card_n_2b5e67eb1e94", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_021: The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same mann...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same manner that my mind itself contains them, when it feels them; but far otherwise, according to a power of its own. For without r"}, {"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. 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I sought "}, {"id": "card_n_4433e20e3c89", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_026: But I pressed towards Thee, and was thrust from Thee, that I might taste of d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But I pressed towards Thee, and was thrust from Thee, that I might taste of death: for thou resistest the proud. But what prouder, than for me with a strange madness to maintain myself to be that by n"}, {"id": "card_n_a3a1b3523d4a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_015: Great is this force of memory, excessive great, O my God; a large and boundle...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great is this force of memory, excessive great, O my God; a large and boundless chamber! who ever sounded the bottom thereof? yet is this a power of mine, and belongs unto my nature; nor do I myself c"}, {"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_ff3ed38a7864", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_012: Thus, I understood, by my own experience, what I had read, how the flesh lust...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thus, I understood, by my own experience, what I had read, how the flesh lusteth against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. Myself verily either way; yet more myself, in that which I approve"}]}