{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_011: What then do I love", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_2a9279be1c2e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_011: What then do I love, when I love my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then do I love, when I love my God? who is He above the head of my soul? By my very soul will I ascend to Him. I will pass beyond that power whereby I am united to my body, and fill its whole fra"}, {"id": "card_n_f4a0b940ddc2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_022: For so did I then love men, upon the judgment of men, not Thine, O my God, in...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For so did I then love men, upon the judgment of men, not Thine, O my God, in Whom no man is deceived. But yet why not for qualities, like those of a famous charioteer, or fighter with beasts in the t"}, {"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_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_a4698509cbb9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_001: Lord, since eternity is Thine, art Thou ignorant of what I say to Thee?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, since eternity is Thine, art Thou ignorant of what I say to Thee? or dost Thou see in time, what passeth in time? Why then do I lay in order before Thee so many relations? Not, of a truth, that "}, {"id": "card_n_aa7c0f1d489c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_035: What then shall I say, O Truth my Light?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then shall I say, O Truth my Light? \"that it was idly said, and without meaning?\" Not so, O Father of piety, far be it from a minister of Thy word to say so. And if I understand not what Thou mea"}, {"id": "card_n_2fa7e2abe99b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_020: These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sinking to the very depths, and to my friends I said, \"Do we love any thing but the beautiful? What then is the beautiful? and"}, {"id": "card_n_3fb5ee50a72f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_029: How then do I seek Thee, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How then do I seek Thee, O Lord? For when I seek Thee, my God, I seek a happy life. I will seek Thee, that my soul may live. For my body liveth by my soul; and my soul by Thee. How then do I seek a ha"}, {"id": "card_n_bf7857dc238f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_034: Hearken, O God, Thou best judge; Truth Itself, hearken to what I shall say to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hearken, O God, Thou best judge; Truth Itself, hearken to what I shall say to this gainsayer, hearken, for before Thee do I speak, and before my brethren, who employ Thy law lawfully, to the end of ch"}, {"id": "card_n_35cc98a7f3bd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_008: Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord. Thou hast stricken my heart with Thy word, and I loved Thee. Yea also heaven, and earth, and all that therein is, behold, on ev"}, {"id": "card_n_80cc656fa1a5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_014: Thus doth the soul commit fornication, when she turns from Thee, seeking with...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thus doth the soul commit fornication, when she turns from Thee, seeking without Thee, what she findeth not pure and untainted, till she returns to Thee. Thus all pervertedly imitate Thee, who remove "}, {"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"}, {"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_4377a969b396", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_010: Is not this corporeal figure apparent to all whose senses are perfect?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Is not this corporeal figure apparent to all whose senses are perfect? why then speaks it not the same to all? Animals small and great see it, but they cannot ask it: because no reason is set over the"}, {"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_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_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_8b14d9b3f11a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_041: I will then speak what is true in Thy sight, O Lord, that when carnal men and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I will then speak what is true in Thy sight, O Lord, that when carnal men and infidels (for the gaining and initiating whom, the initiatory Sacraments and the mighty workings of miracles are necessary"}, {"id": "card_n_2f05f5f9c92e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_033: Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times? Do I then measure, O my God, and know not what I measure? I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not m"}, {"id": "card_n_1e57780a5016", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_017: What then was this feeling?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then was this feeling? For of a truth it was too foul: and woe was me, who had it. But yet what was it? Who can understand his errors? It was the sport, which as it were tickled our hearts, that "}]}