{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_027: For true it is, O L", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_4a1031501116", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_032: Far be it, Lord, far be it from the heart of Thy servant who here confesseth ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Far be it, Lord, far be it from the heart of Thy servant who here confesseth unto Thee, far be it, that, be the joy what it may, I should therefore think myself happy. For there is a joy which is not "}, {"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_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? 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May I learn from Thee, who art Truth, and approach the ear of my heart unto Thy mouth, that Thou mayest tell me why weeping "}, {"id": "card_n_5e19604c13f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_031: These things then being heard and perceived, according to the weakness of my ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things then being heard and perceived, according to the weakness of my capacity (which I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that knowest it), two sorts of disagreements I see may arise, when a thing is "}, {"id": "card_n_24346c864151", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_059: But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But, O Lord, Thou alone Lord without pride, because Thou art the only true Lord, who hast no lord; hath this third kind of temptation also ceased from me, or can it cease through this whole life? To w"}, {"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_e358c564ba96", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_009: Thou callest us then to understand the Word, God, with Thee God, Which is spo...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thou callest us then to understand the Word, God, with Thee God, Which is spoken eternally, and by It are all things spoken eternally. For what was spoken was not spoken successively, one thing conclu"}, {"id": "card_n_4340881c8b53", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_004: Those impostors then, whom they style Mathematicians, I consulted without scr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Those impostors then, whom they style Mathematicians, I consulted without scruple; because they seemed to use no sacrifice, nor to pray to any spirit for their divinations: which art, however, Christi"}, {"id": "card_n_87f56f3b9fe0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_022: But now, my God, cry Thou aloud in my soul; and let Thy truth tell me, \"Not s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now, my God, cry Thou aloud in my soul; and let Thy truth tell me, \"Not so, not so. Far better was that first study.\" For, lo, I would readily forget the wanderings of Aeneas and all the rest, rat"}, {"id": "card_n_b51fbf0407f9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_030: And what did it profit me, that all the books I could procure of the so-calle...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And what did it profit me, that all the books I could procure of the so-called liberal arts, I, the vile slave of vile affections, read by myself, and understood? And I delighted in them, but knew not"}, {"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_9a959859e8b8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_068: But the true Mediator, Whom in Thy secret mercy Thou hast showed to the humbl...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But the true Mediator, Whom in Thy secret mercy Thou hast showed to the humble, and sentest, that by His example also they might learn that same humility, that Mediator between God and man, the Man Ch"}, {"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"}]}