{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_025: Thou then, Ruler of", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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? 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I call Thee into my soul which, by the longing Thyself inspirest into her, Thou preparest for Thee. Fors"}, {"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_f9c6185797cd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_012: Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou, then, O Lord my God, who gavest life to this my infancy, furnishing thus with senses (as we see) the frame Thou gavest, compacting its limbs, ornamenting its proportions, and, for its general go"}, {"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_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_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_acfe6552fbc5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_017: I see not then how she should have been healed, had such a death of mine stri...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I see not then how she should have been healed, had such a death of mine stricken through the bowels of her love. And where would have been those her so strong and unceasing prayers, unintermitting to"}, {"id": "card_n_2f9f80668791", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_007: Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes. Yet suffer me to speak, since I speak to Thy mercy, and not to scornful man. Thou too, perhaps, despisest me, yet wilt Thou return and have c"}, {"id": "card_n_7e927528cb6b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_002: And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come"}, {"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_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_224f0624a043", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_039: Whereat then rejoicest thou, O great Paul?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whereat then rejoicest thou, O great Paul? whereat rejoicest thou? whereon feedest thou, O man, renewed in the knowledge of God, after the image of Him that created thee, thou living soul, of so much "}]}