{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_052: O Thou Light, which", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5079c2a4bf5b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_004: That which Thou saidst in the beginning of the creation, Let there be light, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "That which Thou saidst in the beginning of the creation, Let there be light, and there was light; I do, not unsuitably, understand of the spiritual creature: because there was already a sort of life, "}, {"id": "card_n_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, "}, {"id": "card_n_2024c1ff59f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_013: And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest grace unto the humble, and by how great an act of Thy mercy Thou hadst traced out to men the way of humility, in that Thy Wo"}, {"id": "card_n_7457ea9def62", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_009: Angels fell away, man's soul fell away, and thereby pointed the abyss in that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Angels fell away, man's soul fell away, and thereby pointed the abyss in that dark depth, ready for the whole spiritual creation, hadst not Thou said from the beginning, Let there be light, and there "}, {"id": "card_n_8187675c72c5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_011: Blessed creature, which being itself other than Thou, has known no other cond...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Blessed creature, which being itself other than Thou, has known no other condition, than that, so soon as it was made, it was, without any interval, by Thy Gift, Which is borne above every thing chang"}, {"id": "card_n_c63aae5e49f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_008: But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But that heaven of heavens was for Thyself, O Lord; but the earth which Thou gavest to the sons of men, to be seen and felt, was not such as we now see and feel. 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And if I understand not what Thou mea"}, {"id": "card_n_d00550e148c0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_036: But where in my memory residest Thou, O Lord, where residest Thou there?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But where in my memory residest Thou, O Lord, where residest Thou there? what manner of lodging hast Thou framed for Thee? what manner of sanctuary hast Thou builded for Thee? Thou hast given this hon"}, {"id": "card_n_f9b85d0f6723", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_008: By this time also had I rejected the lying divinations and impious dotages of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "By this time also had I rejected the lying divinations and impious dotages of the astrologers. Let Thine own mercies, out of my very inmost soul, confess unto Thee for this also, O my God. For Thou, T"}, {"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_54d6f0d444af", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_011: And with a loud cry of my heart I cried out in the next verse, O in peace, O ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And with a loud cry of my heart I cried out in the next verse, O in peace, O for The Self-same! O what said he, I will lay me down and sleep, for who shall hinder us, when cometh to pass that saying w"}, {"id": "card_n_8859147da93b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_001: I call upon Thee, O my God, my mercy, Who createdst me, and forgottest not me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I call upon Thee, O my God, my mercy, Who createdst me, and forgottest not me, forgetting Thee. I call Thee into my soul which, by the longing Thyself inspirest into her, Thou preparest for Thee. Fors"}, {"id": "card_n_4ec2f3ff4911", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_021: For what more miserable than a miserable being who commiserates not himself; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For what more miserable than a miserable being who commiserates not himself; weeping the death of Dido for love to Aeneas, but weeping not his own death for want of love to Thee, O God. Thou light of "}]}