{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_005: But for what fruit", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_8d4362c182ce", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_005: But for what fruit would they hear this?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But for what fruit would they hear this? Do they desire to joy with me, when they hear how near, by Thy gift, I approach unto Thee? and to pray for me, when they shall hear how much I am held back by "}, {"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_37d789e01081", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_038: But they are fed by these fruits, that are delighted with them; nor are they ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they are fed by these fruits, that are delighted with them; nor are they delighted with them, whose God is their belly. For neither in them that yield them, are the things yielded the fruit, but w"}, {"id": "card_n_344dd6144576", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_039: But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it wer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it were said, At first He made, can only truly understand heaven and earth of the matter of heaven and earth, that is, of the uni"}, {"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_a5d9dbd6f0d2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_009: Theft is punished by Thy law, O Lord, and the law written in the hearts of me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Theft is punished by Thy law, O Lord, and the law written in the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not. For what thief will abide a thief? not even a rich thief, one stealing through want. "}, {"id": "card_n_861d9856a221", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_002: And from Thee, O Lord, unto whose eyes the abyss of man's conscience is naked...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And from Thee, O Lord, unto whose eyes the abyss of man's conscience is naked, what could be hidden in me though I would not confess it? For I should hide Thee from me, not me from Thee. But now, for "}, {"id": "card_n_b11fd37b562b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_037: I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture minds me of; ye...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture minds me of; yea, I will say, and not fear. For I will say the truth, Thyself inspiring me with what Thou willedst me to deliver out of th"}, {"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_25ca17495cba", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_040: Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity? Rejoiceth he for that? Verily not for that. But how know we this? Because himself says immediately, not because I desire a g"}, {"id": "card_n_f7e96a29ed3c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_005: For that year were my studies intermitted: whilst after my return from Madaur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For that year were my studies intermitted: whilst after my return from Madaura (a neighbour city, whither I had journeyed to learn grammar and rhetoric), the expenses for a further journey to Carthage"}, {"id": "card_n_179a4d8207ae", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_011: Hear, O God.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure fro"}, {"id": "card_n_5f4cbdf547c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_019: In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved not study, and hated to be forced to it. Yet I was forced; and this was well done towards me, but I did not well; for, unle"}, {"id": "card_n_8087d5daa7d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_003: What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if they could heal all my infirmities--a race, curious to know the lives of others, slothful to amend their own? Why seek they"}, {"id": "card_n_d8df57262ee0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_033: Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I say: for if he should ask me, \"How know you that Moses thought that which you infer out of his words?\" I ought to take it i"}, {"id": "card_n_1f48bfb3616e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_061: What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord? What, but that I am delighted with praise, but with truth itself, more than with praise? For were it proposed to me, whether I woul"}, {"id": "card_n_de918342534c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_024: What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name? whence should I recognise it, did I not remember it? I speak not of the sound of the name, but of the thing which it signifies: which"}, {"id": "card_n_055f3f978210", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_020: But why did I so much hate the Greek, which I studied as a boy?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why did I so much hate the Greek, which I studied as a boy? I do not yet fully know. For the Latin I loved; not what my first masters, but what the so-called grammarians taught me. For those first"}, {"id": "card_n_9e9fcf978239", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_003: Nor did I yet groan in my prayers, that Thou wouldest help me; but my spirit ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Nor did I yet groan in my prayers, that Thou wouldest help me; but my spirit was wholly intent on learning, and restless to dispute. And Ambrose himself, as the world counts happy, I esteemed a happy "}]}