{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_016: Nor dost Thou by ti", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_1661669dfdb2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_025: Thou then, Ruler of Thy creation, by what way dost Thou teach souls things to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou then, Ruler of Thy creation, by what way dost Thou teach souls things to come? For Thou didst teach Thy Prophets. By what way dost Thou, to whom nothing is to come, teach things to come; or rathe"}, {"id": "card_n_a6b76398421f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_034: But what is this, and what kind of mystery?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what is this, and what kind of mystery? Behold, Thou blessest mankind, O Lord, that they may increase and multiply, and replenish the earth; dost Thou not thereby give us a hint to understand some"}, {"id": "card_n_e358c564ba96", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_009: Thou callest us then to understand the Word, God, with Thee God, Which is spo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou callest us then to understand the Word, God, with Thee God, Which is spoken eternally, and by It are all things spoken eternally. For what was spoken was not spoken successively, one thing conclu"}, {"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_f74f369d2fbc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_051: For then shalt Thou rest in us, as now Thou workest in us; and so shall that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For then shalt Thou rest in us, as now Thou workest in us; and so shall that be Thy rest through us, as these are Thy works through us. But Thou, Lord, ever workest, and art ever at rest. Nor dost Tho"}, {"id": "card_n_52fb8c52ef30", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_015: But if any excursive brain rove over the images of forepassed times, and wond...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But if any excursive brain rove over the images of forepassed times, and wonder that Thou the God Almighty and All-creating and All-supporting, Maker of heaven and earth, didst for innumerable ages fo"}, {"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_07f578ec78f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_016: Or who, except Thou, our God, made for us that firmament of authority over us...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Or who, except Thou, our God, made for us that firmament of authority over us in Thy Divine Scripture? as it is said, For heaven shall be folded up like a scroll; and now is it stretched over us like "}, {"id": "card_n_25693c20df48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_042: And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was very good. Yea we also see the same, and behold, all things are very good. Of the several kinds of Thy works, when Thou ha"}, {"id": "card_n_9c54052ac290", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_043: And I looked narrowly to find, whether seven, or eight times Thou sawest that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I looked narrowly to find, whether seven, or eight times Thou sawest that Thy works were good, when they pleased Thee; but in Thy seeing I found no times, whereby I might understand that Thou sawe"}, {"id": "card_n_534611934a3f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_031: Dost Thou bid me assent, if any define time to be \"motion of a body?\" Thou do...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Dost Thou bid me assent, if any define time to be \"motion of a body?\" Thou dost not bid me. For that no body is moved, but in time, I hear; this Thou sayest; but that the motion of a body is time, I h"}, {"id": "card_n_e0ed2bc574dc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_012: What then did wretched I so love in thee, thou theft of mine, thou deed of da...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then did wretched I so love in thee, thou theft of mine, thou deed of darkness, in that sixteenth year of my age? Lovely thou wert not, because thou wert theft. But art thou any thing, that thus "}, {"id": "card_n_d0fc5b2ba951", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_012: But Thou, Lord, abidest for ever, yet not for ever art Thou angry with us; be...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But Thou, Lord, abidest for ever, yet not for ever art Thou angry with us; because Thou pitiest our dust and ashes, and it was pleasing in Thy sight to reform my deformities; and by inward goads didst"}, {"id": "card_n_80581c8b81ae", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_038: Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! too late I loved Thee! And behold, Thou wert within, and I abroad, and there I searched for Thee; deformed I, plunging amid those fa"}, {"id": "card_n_b73800834d12", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_001: O Thou, my hope from my youth, where wert Thou to me, and whither wert Thou g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Thou, my hope from my youth, where wert Thou to me, and whither wert Thou gone? Hadst not Thou created me, and separated me from the beasts of the field, and fowls of the air? Thou hadst made me wis"}, {"id": "card_n_51aaccf372cf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_007: But how didst Thou make the heaven and the earth?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how didst Thou make the heaven and the earth? and what the engine of Thy so mighty fabric? For it was not as a human artificer, forming one body from another, according to the discretion of his mi"}, {"id": "card_n_35cc98a7f3bd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_008: Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord. Thou hast stricken my heart with Thy word, and I loved Thee. Yea also heaven, and earth, and all that therein is, behold, on ev"}, {"id": "card_n_f784aa08ea5d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_012: O madness, which knowest not how to love men, like men!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O madness, which knowest not how to love men, like men! O foolish man that I then was, enduring impatiently the lot of man! I fretted then, sighed, wept, was distracted; had neither rest nor counsel. "}]}