{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_031: Where then and when", "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_e801b85240d9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_012: Which of us comprehendeth the Almighty Trinity?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Which of us comprehendeth the Almighty Trinity? and yet which speaks not of It, if indeed it be It? Rare is the soul, which while it speaks of It, knows what it speaks of. And they contend and strive,"}, {"id": "card_n_98aabc636e9b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_016: This then is what I conceive, O my God, when I hear Thy Scripture saying, In ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This then is what I conceive, O my God, when I hear Thy Scripture saying, In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth: and the Earth was invisible and without form, and darkness was upon the deep, 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_9f1c1ac9e38b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_031: Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, and love, and long for it? Nor is it I alone, or some few besides, but we all would fain be happy; which, unless by some cer"}, {"id": "card_n_91aee00da40a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_022: I ask, Father, I affirm not: O my God, rule and guide me.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I ask, Father, I affirm not: O my God, rule and guide me. \"Who will tell me that there are not three times (as we learned when boys, and taught boys), past, present, and future; but present only, beca"}, {"id": "card_n_59702ef11ed3", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_002: Let the restless, the godless, depart and flee from Thee; yet Thou seest them...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let the restless, the godless, depart and flee from Thee; yet Thou seest them, and dividest the darkness. And behold, the universe with them is fair, though they are foul. And how have they injured Th"}, {"id": "card_n_9de37098c61c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_018: And I, viewing and reviewing things, most wondered at the length of time from...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I, viewing and reviewing things, most wondered at the length of time from that my nineteenth year, wherein I had begun to kindle with the desire of wisdom, settling when I had found her, to abando"}, {"id": "card_n_944bbaa1619b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_003: Do the heaven and earth then contain Thee, since Thou fillest them?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Do the heaven and earth then contain Thee, since Thou fillest them? or dost Thou fill them and yet overflow, since they do not contain Thee? And whither, when the heaven and the earth are filled, pour"}, {"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_b9c13a8b9681", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_010: Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God? I see it in a way; but how to express it, I know not, unless it be, that whatsoever begins to be, and leaves off to be, begins then, and leaves off then, when in Th"}, {"id": "card_n_cbcebb1c3afb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_028: But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what when the memory itself loses any thing, as falls out when we forget and seek that we may recollect? Where in the end do we search, but in the memory itself? and there, if one thing be perchan"}, {"id": "card_n_34b8d711f81a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_008: Afterwards I began to smile; first in sleep, then waking: for so it was told ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Afterwards I began to smile; first in sleep, then waking: for so it was told me of myself, and I believed it; for we see the like in other infants, though of myself I remember it not. Thus, little by "}, {"id": "card_n_3f241671ab68", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_041: Verily Thou enjoinest me continency from the lust of the flesh, the lust of t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Verily Thou enjoinest me continency from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the ambition of the world. Thou enjoinest continency from concubinage; and for wedlock itself, Thou hast couns"}, {"id": "card_n_fdd81376f256", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_029: So was I speaking and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "So was I speaking and weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo! I heard from a neighbouring house a voice, as of boy or girl, I know not, chanting, and oft repeating, \"Take up and r"}, {"id": "card_n_5393868bcbac", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_016: Then didst Thou by a vision discover to Thy forenamed Bishop where the bodies...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Then didst Thou by a vision discover to Thy forenamed Bishop where the bodies of Gervasius and Protasius the martyrs lay hid (whom Thou hadst in Thy secret treasury stored uncorrupted so many years), "}, {"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_7c20ad8d03d5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_012: I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I will pass then beyond this power of my nature also, rising by degrees unto Him Who made me. And I come to the fields and spacious palaces of my memory, where are the treasures of innumerable images,"}, {"id": "card_n_c9ab39f0d2c7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_001: To Carthage I came, where there sang all around me in my ears a cauldron of u...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To Carthage I came, where there sang all around me in my ears a cauldron of unholy loves. I loved not yet, yet I loved to love, and out of a deep-seated want, I hated myself for wanting not. I sought "}, {"id": "card_n_d1a719fd2d81", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_020: Whence was this also, that when she had told me this vision, and I would fain...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence was this also, that when she had told me this vision, and I would fain bend it to mean, \"That she rather should not despair of being one day what I was\"; she presently, without any hesitation, "}]}