{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_012: Lo, are they not fu", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_d5318e368d58", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_006: Behold, the heavens and the earth are; they proclaim that they were created; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, the heavens and the earth are; they proclaim that they were created; for they change and vary. Whereas whatsoever hath not been made, and yet is, hath nothing in it, which before it had not; a"}, {"id": "card_n_93a415156425", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_023: Permit me, Lord, to seek further.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Permit me, Lord, to seek further. O my hope, let not my purpose be confounded. For if times past and to come be, I would know where they be. Which yet if I cannot, yet I know, wherever they be, they a"}, {"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_b1436f2d5b2a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_005: But they knew not the way, Thy Word, by Whom Thou madest these things which t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they knew not the way, Thy Word, by Whom Thou madest these things which they number, and themselves who number, and the sense whereby they perceive what they number, and the understanding, out of "}, {"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_207a041c74c6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_018: And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrup...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrupted; which neither were they sovereignly good, nor unless they were good could be corrupted: for if sovereignly good, they "}, {"id": "card_n_3b50a50cbffd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_017: And I beheld the other things below Thee, and I perceived that they neither a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I beheld the other things below Thee, and I perceived that they neither altogether are, nor altogether are not, for they are, since they are from Thee, but are not, because they are not what Thou "}, {"id": "card_n_0500da92d451", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_033: It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish n...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is not certain then that all wish to be happy, inasmuch as they who wish not to joy in Thee, which is the only happy life, do not truly desire the happy life. Or do all men desire this, but because"}, {"id": "card_n_37d789e01081", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_038: But they are fed by these fruits, that are delighted with them; nor are they ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they are fed by these fruits, that are delighted with them; nor are they delighted with them, whose God is their belly. For neither in them that yield them, are the things yielded the fruit, but w"}, {"id": "card_n_f175418ead13", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_012: Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us, \"What was God doing...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us, \"What was God doing before He made heaven and earth? For if (say they) He were unemployed and wrought not, why does He not also henceforth, an"}, {"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_95f6231ca650", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_034: But why doth \"truth generate hatred,\" and the man of Thine, preaching the tru...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why doth \"truth generate hatred,\" and the man of Thine, preaching the truth, become an enemy to them? whereas a happy life is loved, which is nothing else but joying in the truth; unless that trut"}, {"id": "card_n_202888449903", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_016: Nor dost Thou by time, precede time: else shouldest Thou not precede all times.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Nor dost Thou by time, precede time: else shouldest Thou not precede all times. But Thou precedest all things past, by the sublimity of an ever-present eternity; and surpassest all future because they"}, {"id": "card_n_6578738612f7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_019: The memory containeth also reasons and laws innumerable of numbers and dimens...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The memory containeth also reasons and laws innumerable of numbers and dimensions, none of which hath any bodily sense impressed; seeing they have neither colour, nor sound, nor taste, nor smell, nor "}, {"id": "card_n_5fdb4249401c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_024: Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that only can be seen, which is. But what now is, is not future, but present. When then things to come are said to be seen, it i"}, {"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_370914788e0d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_017: But now when I hear that there be three kinds of questions, \"Whether the thin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now when I hear that there be three kinds of questions, \"Whether the thing be? what it is? of what kind it is?\" I do indeed hold the images of the sounds of which those words be composed, and that"}, {"id": "card_n_d8df57262ee0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_033: Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I say: for if he should ask me, \"How know you that Moses thought that which you infer out of his words?\" I ought to take it i"}, {"id": "card_n_4e743297cf2f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_017: At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest. And no times are coeternal with Thee, because Thou abidest; but if they abode, they should not be times. For what is tim"}, {"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"}]}