{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_016: This then is what I", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_98aabc636e9b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_016: This then is what I conceive, O my God, when I hear Thy Scripture saying, In ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This then is what I conceive, O my God, when I hear Thy Scripture saying, In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth: and the Earth was invisible and without form, and darkness was upon the deep, and "}, {"id": "card_n_5d4220bafc3a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_006: This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to confess this, not before Thee only, in a secret exultation with trembling, and a secret sorrow with hope; but in the ears "}, {"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_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_1f48bfb3616e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_061: What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord? What, but that I am delighted with praise, but with truth itself, more than with praise? 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For the confessions of my past sins, which Thou hast forgiven and covered, that Thou mightest bless me in Thee, "}, {"id": "card_n_aa7c0f1d489c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_035: What then shall I say, O Truth my Light?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then shall I say, O Truth my Light? \"that it was idly said, and without meaning?\" Not so, O Father of piety, far be it from a minister of Thy word to say so. And if I understand not what Thou mea"}, {"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_6bd1867c8704", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_026: Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this am I myself. What am I then, O my God? What nature am I? A life various"}, {"id": "card_n_76413f9f7d97", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_021: \"What say ye to me, O ye gainsayers that I was speaking unto, who yet believe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"What say ye to me, O ye gainsayers that I was speaking unto, who yet believe Moses to have been the holy servant of God, and his books the oracles of the Holy Ghost? Is not this house of God, not coe"}, {"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_d9a87d92cd43", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_013: By this may the soul, whose pilgrimage is made long and far away, by this may...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "By this may the soul, whose pilgrimage is made long and far away, by this may she understand, if she now thirsts for Thee, if her tears be now become her bread, while they daily say unto her, Where is"}, {"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_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_344dd6144576", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_039: But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it wer...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But he that no otherwise understands In the Beginning He made, than if it were said, At first He made, can only truly understand heaven and earth of the matter of heaven and earth, that is, of the uni"}, {"id": "card_n_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, "}, {"id": "card_n_2fa7e2abe99b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_020: These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things I then knew not, and I loved these lower beauties, and I was sinking to the very depths, and to my friends I said, \"Do we love any thing but the beautiful? What then is the beautiful? and"}, {"id": "card_n_d93cf988b5e8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_019: \"Perish every thing, dismiss we these empty vanities, and betake ourselves to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Perish every thing, dismiss we these empty vanities, and betake ourselves to the one search for truth! Life is vain, death uncertain; if it steals upon us on a sudden, in what state shall we depart h"}]}