{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_030: But is it so, as on", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5232a0af5850", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_034: Courage, my mind, and press on mightily.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Courage, my mind, and press on mightily. God is our helper, He made us, and not we ourselves. Press on where truth begins to dawn. Suppose, now, the voice of a body begins to sound, and does sound, an"}, {"id": "card_n_9d644c0fb4e4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_015: Is there, Lord, any of soul so great, and cleaving to Thee with so intense af...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Is there, Lord, any of soul so great, and cleaving to Thee with so intense affection (for a sort of stupidity will in a way do it); but is there any one who, from cleaving devoutly to Thee, is endued "}, {"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_a5b9a29d7cf1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_015: These things considered, as much as Thou givest, O my God, as much as Thou st...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things considered, as much as Thou givest, O my God, as much as Thou stirrest me up to knock, and as much as Thou openest to me knocking, two things I find that Thou hast made, not within the co"}, {"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_c535def84bb6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_030: But Thy word, O God, is the fountain of life eternal; and passeth not away: w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But Thy word, O God, is the fountain of life eternal; and passeth not away: wherefore this departure of the soul is restrained by Thy word, when it is said unto us, Be not conformed unto this world; t"}, {"id": "card_n_87f56f3b9fe0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_022: But now, my God, cry Thou aloud in my soul; and let Thy truth tell me, \"Not s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now, my God, cry Thou aloud in my soul; and let Thy truth tell me, \"Not so, not so. Far better was that first study.\" For, lo, I would readily forget the wanderings of Aeneas and all the rest, rat"}, {"id": "card_n_a204865c75a5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_008: Who can recount all Thy praises, which he hath felt in his one self?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Who can recount all Thy praises, which he hath felt in his one self? What diddest Thou then, my God, and how unsearchable is the abyss of Thy judgments? For long, sore sick of a fever, he lay senseles"}, {"id": "card_n_1d1f86ed3862", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_035: \"Deus Creator omnium,\" this verse of eight syllables alternates between short...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Deus Creator omnium,\" this verse of eight syllables alternates between short and long syllables. The four short then, the first, third, fifth, and seventh, are but single, in respect of the four long"}, {"id": "card_n_ec1e106a8311", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_002: Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel to my fire. Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no m"}, {"id": "card_n_601defb1169b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_028: And what did it profit me, that scarce twenty years old, a book of Aristotle,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And what did it profit me, that scarce twenty years old, a book of Aristotle, which they call the ten Predicaments, falling into my hands (on whose very name I hung, as on something great and divine, "}, {"id": "card_n_d5ad2bcf74a9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_056: In this so vast wilderness, full of snares and dangers, behold many of them I...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In this so vast wilderness, full of snares and dangers, behold many of them I have cut off, and thrust out of my heart, as Thou hast given me, O God of my salvation. And yet when dare I say, since so "}, {"id": "card_n_38a0eb4f19cf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_015: Turn us, O God of Hosts, show us Thy countenance, and we shall be whole.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Turn us, O God of Hosts, show us Thy countenance, and we shall be whole. For whithersoever the soul of man turns itself, unless toward Thee, it is riveted upon sorrows, yea though it is riveted on thi"}, {"id": "card_n_339ec3907a77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_025: Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soil requiring over much sweat of the brow. For we are not now searching out the regions of heaven, or measuring the distances"}, {"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_c92219bd1b79", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_018: I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or wa"}, {"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_aa0641f821ac", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_020: While I went over these things, and these winds shifted and drove my heart th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "While I went over these things, and these winds shifted and drove my heart this way and that, time passed on, but I delayed to turn to the Lord; and from day to day deferred to live in Thee, and defer"}, {"id": "card_n_c4ebdd8a6f8b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_029: Now then let Thy ministers work upon the earth,--not as upon the waters of in...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now then let Thy ministers work upon the earth,--not as upon the waters of infidelity, by preaching and speaking by miracles, and Sacraments, and mystic words; wherein ignorance, the mother of admirat"}, {"id": "card_n_1505ca677942", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_023: Why then did I hate the Greek classics, which have the like tales?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why then did I hate the Greek classics, which have the like tales? For Homer also curiously wove the like fictions, and is most sweetly-vain, yet was he bitter to my boyish taste. And so I suppose wou"}]}