{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_039: But he that no othe", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_fa6ce7542cd8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_022: For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so fast in the birdlime of that pleasure, as to protest (so oft as we discussed it) that I could never lead a single life; and "}, {"id": "card_n_27586fd6114c", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_03_17: Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said: Where there is no Torah, there is no right con...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said: Where there is no Torah, there is no right conduct; where there is no right conduct, there is no Torah. 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Whereupon those difficulties vanished away, wherein he once seemed to me to contradict himself, and th"}, {"id": "card_n_8c228cf64f65", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_019: \"But our true Life came down hither, and bore our death, and slew him, out of...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"But our true Life came down hither, and bore our death, and slew him, out of the abundance of His own life: and He thundered, calling aloud to us to return hence to Him into that secret place, whence"}, {"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_f73877a9def8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_037: But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not? or how that past increased, which is now no longer, save that in the mind which enacteth this, there be three things done? For it ex"}, {"id": "card_n_c7927d4c3fcc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_018: \"Will you affirm that to be false, which with a strong voice Truth tells me i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Will you affirm that to be false, which with a strong voice Truth tells me in my inner ear, concerning the Eternity of the Creator, that His substance is no ways changed by time, nor His will separat"}, {"id": "card_n_73945193ccef", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_032: But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But which of us shall, among those so many truths, which occur to enquirers in those words, as they are differently understood, so discover that one meaning, as to affirm, \"this Moses thought,\" and \"t"}, {"id": "card_n_080b793b5b78", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_006: He then had at that time sorrow, but Nebridius joy.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He then had at that time sorrow, but Nebridius joy. For although he also, not being yet a Christian, had fallen into the pit of that most pernicious error, believing the flesh of Thy Son to be a phant"}, {"id": "card_n_45c323384ad4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_005: And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I strained to perceive what I now heard, that free-will was the cause of our doing ill, and Thy just judgment of our suffering ill. But I was not able clearly to discern it. So then endeavouring t"}, {"id": "card_n_a204865c75a5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_008: Who can recount all Thy praises, which he hath felt in his one self?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Who can recount all Thy praises, which he hath felt in his one self? What diddest Thou then, my God, and how unsearchable is the abyss of Thy judgments? For long, sore sick of a fever, he lay senseles"}, {"id": "card_n_d4e566bec511", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_014: This is it that is loved in friends; and so loved, that a man's conscience co...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This is it that is loved in friends; and so loved, that a man's conscience condemns itself, if he love not him that loves him again, or love not again him that loves him, looking for nothing from his "}, {"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_2fcd81d6862d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_014: But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. As yet doth deep call unto deep, but now in the voice of Thy water-spouts. As yet doth he that saith"}, {"id": "card_n_ec1e106a8311", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_002: Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Stage-plays also carried me away, full of images of my miseries, and of fuel to my fire. Why is it, that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would no m"}]}