{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_017: At no time then had", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_cfed83528f28", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_004: Moreover, it had at first troubled me that in this very summer my lungs began...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Moreover, it had at first troubled me that in this very summer my lungs began to give way, amid too great literary labour, and to breathe deeply with difficulty, and by the pain in my chest to show th"}, {"id": "card_n_ccbf2a23f514", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_018: And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or to come. A long time past (for example) we call an hundred years since; and a long time to come, an hundred years hence. B"}, {"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_e86ce1a42d1e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_011: But what speak I of these things?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what speak I of these things? for now is no time to question, but to confess unto Thee. Wretched I was; and wretched is every soul bound by the friendship of perishable things; he is torn asunder "}, {"id": "card_n_c55b37eee6ab", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_016: What fruit had I then (wretched man!) in those things, of the remembrance whe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What fruit had I then (wretched man!) in those things, of the remembrance whereof I am now ashamed? Especially, in that theft which I loved for the theft's sake; and it too was nothing, and therefore "}, {"id": "card_n_f9b38fafa702", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_016: Him then I had found at Rome, and he clave to me by a most strong tie, and we...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Him then I had found at Rome, and he clave to me by a most strong tie, and went with me to Milan, both that he might not leave me, and might practise something of the law he had studied, more to pleas"}, {"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_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_1e57780a5016", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_017: What then was this feeling?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then was this feeling? For of a truth it was too foul: and woe was me, who had it. But yet what was it? Who can understand his errors? It was the sport, which as it were tickled our hearts, that "}, {"id": "card_n_cf6928dba910", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_003: To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in receivin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To Simplicianus then I went, the father of Ambrose (a Bishop now) in receiving Thy grace, and whom Ambrose truly loved as a father. To him I related the mazes of my wanderings. But when I mentioned th"}, {"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_7a950aa793c2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_005: Ignorant then how this Thy image should subsist, I should have knocked and pr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Ignorant then how this Thy image should subsist, I should have knocked and proposed the doubt, how it was to be believed, not insultingly opposed it, as if believed. Doubt, then, what to hold for cert"}, {"id": "card_n_2d9d9ecf6173", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_011: That greediness then, wherewith I had of so long time expected that man, was ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "That greediness then, wherewith I had of so long time expected that man, was delighted verily with his action and feeling when disputing, and his choice and readiness of words to clothe his ideas. I w"}, {"id": "card_n_51f8a7d4e0b1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_006: For I was in such wise striving to find out the rest, as one who had already ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For I was in such wise striving to find out the rest, as one who had already found that the incorruptible must needs be better than the corruptible: and Thee therefore, whatsoever Thou wert, I confess"}, {"id": "card_n_c8995643c97a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_021: Alypius indeed kept me from marrying; alleging that so could we by no means w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Alypius indeed kept me from marrying; alleging that so could we by no means with undistracted leisure live together in the love of wisdom, as we had long desired. For himself was even then most pure i"}, {"id": "card_n_955fa679fc0d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_018: Thou recoveredst me then of that sickness, and healedst the son of Thy handma...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou recoveredst me then of that sickness, and healedst the son of Thy handmaid, for the time in body, that he might live, for Thee to bestow upon him a better and more abiding health. And even then, "}, {"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_c_0059da1cce6e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_ → Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in augustine_confessions."}, {"id": "card_c_00e7f325ce1f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_ → Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sequential next in augustine_confessions."}]}