{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_014: These things do I w", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_2f98a5c4f9d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_026: What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are. Nor is it properly said, \"there be three times, past, present, and to come\": yet perchance it might be properly said, \"there b"}, {"id": "card_n_7fd6c8a8e758", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_014: These things do I within, in that vast court of my memory.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things do I within, in that vast court of my memory. For there are present with me, heaven, earth, sea, and whatever I could think on therein, besides what I have forgotten. There also meet I wi"}, {"id": "card_n_e2a1059d4f5d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_019: And to Thee is nothing whatsoever evil: yea, not only to Thee, but also to Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And to Thee is nothing whatsoever evil: yea, not only to Thee, but also to Thy creation as a whole, because there is nothing without, which may break in, and corrupt that order which Thou hast appoint"}, {"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_6ea872a76a64", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_026: Such things was I speaking, and even if not in this very manner, and these sa...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Such things was I speaking, and even if not in this very manner, and these same words, yet, Lord, Thou knowest that in that day when we were speaking of these things, and this world with all its delig"}, {"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_867e1a651a5a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_008: But yet who bade that Manichaeus write on these things also, skill in which w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But yet who bade that Manichaeus write on these things also, skill in which was no element of piety? For Thou hast said to man, Behold piety and wisdom; of which he might be ignorant, though he had pe"}, {"id": "card_n_8ef01c62e191", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_020: Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such motions as men sometimes would, but cannot, if either they have not the limbs, or these be bound with bands, weakened with"}, {"id": "card_n_c93472531537", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_026: Speak I untruly, or do I mingle and confound, and not distinguish between the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Speak I untruly, or do I mingle and confound, and not distinguish between the lucid knowledge of these things in the firmament of heaven, and the material works in the wavy sea, and under the firmamen"}, {"id": "card_n_8746d9145421", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_041: So when one says, \"Moses meant as I do\"; and another, \"Nay, but as I do,\" I s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "So when one says, \"Moses meant as I do\"; and another, \"Nay, but as I do,\" I suppose that I speak more reverently, \"Why not rather as both, if both be true?\" And if there be a third, or a fourth, yea i"}, {"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_dbb816175c3d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_020: All these things I remember, and how I learnt them I remember.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "All these things I remember, and how I learnt them I remember. Many things also most falsely objected against them have I heard, and remember; which though they be false, yet is it not false that I re"}, {"id": "card_n_cc5267f21052", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_013: There are all things preserved distinctly and under general heads, each havin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There are all things preserved distinctly and under general heads, each having entered by its own avenue: as light, and all colours and forms of bodies by the eyes; by the ears all sorts of sounds; al"}, {"id": "card_n_a75d485f6a78", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_023: But that orator was of that sort whom I loved, as wishing to be myself such; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But that orator was of that sort whom I loved, as wishing to be myself such; and I erred through a swelling pride, and was tossed about with every wind, but yet was steered by Thee, though very secret"}, {"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_1d3923aa7428", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_004: For with their understanding and wit, which Thou bestowedst on them, they sea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For with their understanding and wit, which Thou bestowedst on them, they search out these things; and much have they found out; and foretold, many years before, eclipses of those luminaries, the sun "}, {"id": "card_n_e9f30a8f7e1f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_009: For when I hear any Christian brother ignorant of these things, and mistaken ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For when I hear any Christian brother ignorant of these things, and mistaken on them, I can patiently behold such a man holding his opinion; nor do I see that any ignorance as to the position or chara"}, {"id": "card_n_bd5cb25aa5d9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_017: Wondrous depth of Thy words!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Wondrous depth of Thy words! whose surface, behold! is before us, inviting to little ones; yet are they a wondrous depth. O my God, a wondrous depth! It is awful to look therein; an awfulness of honou"}, {"id": "card_n_2a9d8a4351e6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_001: I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my so...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul; not because I love them, but that I may love Thee, O my God. For love of Thy love I do it; reviewing my most wicked way"}]}