{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_031: These things then b", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_867e1a651a5a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_008: But yet who bade that Manichaeus write on these things also, skill in which w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But yet who bade that Manichaeus write on these things also, skill in which was no element of piety? For Thou hast said to man, Behold piety and wisdom; of which he might be ignorant, though he had pe"}, {"id": "card_n_dbb816175c3d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_020: All these things I remember, and how I learnt them I remember.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "All these things I remember, and how I learnt them I remember. Many things also most falsely objected against them have I heard, and remember; which though they be false, yet is it not false that I re"}, {"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_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_6ebf8ba5db2d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_014: These things I then knew not, nor observed; they struck my sight on all sides...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "These things I then knew not, nor observed; they struck my sight on all sides, and I saw them not. I indited verses, in which I might not place every foot every where, but differently in different met"}, {"id": "card_n_e2a1059d4f5d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_019: And to Thee is nothing whatsoever evil: yea, not only to Thee, but also to Th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And to Thee is nothing whatsoever evil: yea, not only to Thee, but also to Thy creation as a whole, because there is nothing without, which may break in, and corrupt that order which Thou hast appoint"}, {"id": "card_n_344369a8ded5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_007: Doth then, O Lord God of truth, whoso knoweth these things, therefore please ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Doth then, O Lord God of truth, whoso knoweth these things, therefore please Thee? Surely unhappy is he who knoweth all these, and knoweth not Thee: but happy whoso knoweth Thee, though he know not th"}, {"id": "card_n_d2e50284c7f6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_027: What answer I made her unto these things, I remember not.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What answer I made her unto these things, I remember not. For scarce five days after, or not much more, she fell sick of a fever; and in that sickness one day she fell into a swoon, and was for a whil"}, {"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_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"}, {"id": "card_n_e86ce1a42d1e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_011: But what speak I of these things?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what speak I of these things? for now is no time to question, but to confess unto Thee. Wretched I was; and wretched is every soul bound by the friendship of perishable things; he is torn asunder "}, {"id": "card_n_c72f9c71957a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_026: All which things being heard and well considered, I will not strive about wor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "All which things being heard and well considered, I will not strive about words: for that is profitable to nothing, but the subversion of the hearers. But the law is good to edify, if a man use it law"}, {"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_7c28f050602b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_026: But having then read those books of the Platonists, and thence been taught to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But having then read those books of the Platonists, and thence been taught to search for incorporeal truth, I saw Thy invisible things, understood by those things which are made; and though cast back,"}, {"id": "card_n_adc00955018f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_010: And now, Lord, these things are passed by, and time hath assuaged my wound.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now, Lord, these things are passed by, and time hath assuaged my wound. 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_7cbba5b9d9b5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_025: We were saying then: If to any the tumult of the flesh were hushed, hushed th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We were saying then: If to any the tumult of the flesh were hushed, hushed the images of earth, and waters, and air, hushed also the pole of heaven, yea the very soul be hushed to herself, and by not "}, {"id": "card_n_6b2ff4052ffb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_022: I began then diligently to practise that for which I came to Rome, to teach r...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I began then diligently to practise that for which I came to Rome, to teach rhetoric; and first, to gather some to my house, to whom, and through whom, I had begun to be known; when lo, I found other "}, {"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_27e96c084111", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_034: Yet, Lord, to Thee, the Creator and Governor of the universe, most excellent ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Yet, Lord, to Thee, the Creator and Governor of the universe, most excellent and most good, thanks were due to Thee our God, even hadst Thou destined for me boyhood only. For even then I was, I lived,"}, {"id": "card_n_22453f2203b2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_023: For they say, \"Though these things be true, yet did not Moses intend those tw...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For they say, \"Though these things be true, yet did not Moses intend those two, when, by revelation of the Spirit, he said, In the beginning God created heaven and earth. He did not under the name of "}]}