{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_012: Thou hast told me a", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_63175690c5e0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_011: Already Thou hast told me with a strong voice, O Lord, in my inner ear, that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Already Thou hast told me with a strong voice, O Lord, in my inner ear, that Thou art eternal, Who only hast immortality; since Thou canst not be changed as to figure or motion, nor is Thy will altere"}, {"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. 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For it is not, I deem, of the earth, not of gold and silver, and precious stones, or gorgeous apparel, or honours and offices, or the pleasures of the flesh"}, {"id": "card_n_8f3b66778ec8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_058: And Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healedst me ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healedst me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities"}, {"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? 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And whither, when the heaven and the earth are filled, pour"}, {"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_0a05e3e07adf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_005: Oh!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, and inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good! What art Thou to me? In Thy pity, teach me to "}, {"id": "card_n_5f4cbdf547c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_019: In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved not study, and hated to be forced to it. Yet I was forced; and this was well done towards me, but I did not well; for, unle"}, {"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_3f19baf7aecd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_024: Hear, Lord, my prayer; let not my soul faint under Thy discipline, nor let me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hear, Lord, my prayer; let not my soul faint under Thy discipline, nor let me faint in confessing unto Thee all Thy mercies, whereby Thou hast drawn me out of all my most evil ways, that Thou mightest"}, {"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_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_e8b47f718fb7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_015: But why I went hence, and went thither, Thou knewest, O God, yet showedst it ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But why I went hence, and went thither, Thou knewest, O God, yet showedst it neither to me, nor to my mother, who grievously bewailed my journey, and followed me as far as the sea. But I deceived her,"}, {"id": "card_n_e60e726aa55e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_011: In this Beginning, O God, hast Thou made heaven and earth, in Thy Word, in Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In this Beginning, O God, hast Thou made heaven and earth, in Thy Word, in Thy Son, in Thy Power, in Thy Wisdom, in Thy Truth; wondrously speaking, and wondrously making. Who shall comprehend? Who dec"}, {"id": "card_n_b1673ad3a7e6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_007: Woe is me!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Woe is me! and dare I say that Thou heldest Thy peace, O my God, while I wandered further from Thee? Didst Thou then indeed hold Thy peace to me? And whose but Thine were these words which by my mothe"}]}