{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_004: How then should it", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_a9711b8216ce", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_004: How then should it be called, that it might be in some measure conveyed to th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How then should it be called, that it might be in some measure conveyed to those of duller mind, but by some ordinary word? And what, among all parts of the world can be found nearer to an absolute fo"}, {"id": "card_n_66d38a1bc34d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_005: I would hear and understand, how \"In the Beginning Thou madest the heaven and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would hear and understand, how \"In the Beginning Thou madest the heaven and earth.\" Moses wrote this, wrote and departed, passed hence from Thee to Thee; nor is he now before me. For if he were, I w"}, {"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_7d2053658b1e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_011: Where then wert Thou then to me, and how far from me?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Where then wert Thou then to me, and how far from me? Far verily was I straying from Thee, barred from the very husks of the swine, whom with husks I fed. For how much better are the fables of poets a"}, {"id": "card_n_0dfc1b8fc688", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_010: Away with those then from my soul who say to her, \"It makes a difference when...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Away with those then from my soul who say to her, \"It makes a difference whence a man's joy is. That beggar-man joyed in drunkenness; Thou desiredst to joy in glory.\" What glory, Lord? That which is n"}, {"id": "card_n_de918342534c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_024: What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name? whence should I recognise it, did I not remember it? I speak not of the sound of the name, but of the thing which it signifies: which"}, {"id": "card_n_9f1c1ac9e38b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_031: Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, and love, and long for it? Nor is it I alone, or some few besides, but we all would fain be happy; which, unless by some cer"}, {"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_8087d5daa7d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_003: What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if they could heal all my infirmities--a race, curious to know the lives of others, slothful to amend their own? Why seek they"}, {"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_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_b8858c409f6f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_009: I panted after honours, gains, marriage; and thou deridedst me.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I panted after honours, gains, marriage; and thou deridedst me. In these desires I underwent most bitter crosses, Thou being the more gracious, the less Thou sufferedst aught to grow sweet to me, whic"}, {"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_dae983dcdf6c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_069: How hast Thou loved us, good Father, who sparedst not Thine only Son, but del...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "How hast Thou loved us, good Father, who sparedst not Thine only Son, but deliveredst Him up for us ungodly! How hast Thou loved us, for whom He that thought it no robbery to be equal with Thee, was m"}, {"id": "card_n_bea0fa03ba59", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_009: I trembled for fear, and again kindled with hope, and with rejoicing in Thy m...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I trembled for fear, and again kindled with hope, and with rejoicing in Thy mercy, O Father; and all issued forth both by mine eyes and voice, when Thy good Spirit turning unto us, said, O ye sons of "}, {"id": "card_n_09118272b605", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_016: And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was goi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And lo, there was I received by the scourge of bodily sickness, and I was going down to hell, carrying all the sins which I had committed, both against Thee, and myself, and others, many and grievous,"}, {"id": "card_n_beece41e2e3d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_008: But how didst Thou speak?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how didst Thou speak? In the way that the voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son? For that voice passed by and passed away, began and ended; the syllables sounded and passed a"}, {"id": "card_n_a3a1b3523d4a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_015: Great is this force of memory, excessive great, O my God; a large and boundle...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great is this force of memory, excessive great, O my God; a large and boundless chamber! who ever sounded the bottom thereof? yet is this a power of mine, and belongs unto my nature; nor do I myself c"}, {"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"}]}