{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_037: But how is that fut", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f73877a9def8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_037: But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not? or how that past increased, which is now no longer, save that in the mind which enacteth this, there be three things done? For it ex"}, {"id": "card_n_69eb8810552c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_046: Thou hast taught me, good Father, that to the pure, all things are pure; but ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou hast taught me, good Father, that to the pure, all things are pure; but that it is evil unto the man that eateth with offence; and, that every creature of Thine is good, and nothing to be refused"}, {"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_8fcb53d51da5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_027: I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to say, this time is twice so much as that one; or, this is just so much as that; and so of any other parts of time, which be m"}, {"id": "card_n_f02c31493568", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_032: And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that I know that I speak this in time, and that having long spoken of time, that very \"long\" is "}, {"id": "card_n_45c323384ad4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_005: And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of our doing ill, and Thy just judgment of our suffering ill. But I was not able clearly to discern it. So then endeavouring t"}, {"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_f6567c3258b0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_041: O Lord my God, what a depth is that recess of Thy mysteries, and how far from...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord my God, what a depth is that recess of Thy mysteries, and how far from it have the consequences of my transgressions cast me! Heal mine eyes, that I may share the joy of Thy light. Certainly, i"}, {"id": "card_n_5e0f6c2de60d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_008: How did I burn then, my God, how did I burn to re-mount from earthly things t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How did I burn then, my God, how did I burn to re-mount from earthly things to Thee, nor knew I what Thou wouldest do with me? For with Thee is wisdom. But the love of wisdom is in Greek called \"philo"}, {"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_2288684e8c31", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_014: Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God. But that the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, I read"}, {"id": "card_n_a635af206bdf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_027: For true it is, O Lord, that Thou madest heaven and earth; and it is true too...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For true it is, O Lord, that Thou madest heaven and earth; and it is true too, that the Beginning is Thy Wisdom, in Which Thou createst all: and true again, that this visible world hath for its greate"}, {"id": "card_n_f34b7ca6db45", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_045: But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they who by Thy Spirit see these things, Thou seest in them. Therefore when they see that these things are good, Thou seest that they are good; and whatsoever things for Thy sake please, Thou plea"}, {"id": "card_n_c43704840de6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_013: Who speak thus, do not yet understand Thee, O Wisdom of God, Light of souls, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Who speak thus, do not yet understand Thee, O Wisdom of God, Light of souls, understand not yet how the things be made, which by Thee, and in Thee are made: yet they strive to comprehend things eterna"}, {"id": "card_n_dec5b14dc67b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_001: Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite. And Thee would man praise; man, but a particle of Thy creation; man, that bears about him his mortality,"}, {"id": "card_n_2fcd81d6862d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_014: But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. As yet doth deep call unto deep, but now in the voice of Thy water-spouts. As yet doth he that saith"}, {"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_25ca17495cba", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_040: Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Was it for his own necessities, because he said, Ye sent unto my necessity? Rejoiceth he for that? Verily not for that. But how know we this? Because himself says immediately, not because I desire a g"}, {"id": "card_n_f7e96a29ed3c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_005: For that year were my studies intermitted: whilst after my return from Madaur...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For that year were my studies intermitted: whilst after my return from Madaura (a neighbour city, whither I had journeyed to learn grammar and rhetoric), the expenses for a further journey to Carthage"}, {"id": "card_n_79769921b892", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_028: And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated from the bitterness of the waters, brings forth, not the moving creature that hath life, but the living soul. For now hath"}]}