{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_005: What then could be", "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_207a041c74c6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_018: And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrup...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And it was manifested unto me, that those things be good which yet are corrupted; which neither were they sovereignly good, nor unless they were good could be corrupted: for if sovereignly good, they "}, {"id": "card_n_be1f34c3c2ff", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_007: But what was the cause, O true-speaking Light?--unto Thee lift I up my heart,...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what was the cause, O true-speaking Light?--unto Thee lift I up my heart, let it not teach me vanities, dispel its darkness; and tell me, I beseech Thee, by our mother charity, tell me the reason,"}, {"id": "card_n_34b8d711f81a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_008: Afterwards I began to smile; first in sleep, then waking: for so it was told ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Afterwards I began to smile; first in sleep, then waking: for so it was told me of myself, and I believed it; for we see the like in other infants, though of myself I remember it not. Thus, little by "}, {"id": "card_n_5232a0af5850", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_034: Courage, my mind, and press on mightily.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Courage, my mind, and press on mightily. God is our helper, He made us, and not we ourselves. Press on where truth begins to dawn. Suppose, now, the voice of a body begins to sound, and does sound, an"}, {"id": "card_n_ccbf2a23f514", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_018: And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or to come. A long time past (for example) we call an hundred years since; and a long time to come, an hundred years hence. B"}, {"id": "card_n_7e891a819d77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_007: Being led, however, from this to prefer the Catholic doctrine, I felt that he...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Being led, however, from this to prefer the Catholic doctrine, I felt that her proceeding was more unassuming and honest, in that she required to be believed things not demonstrated (whether it was th"}, {"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_179a4d8207ae", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_011: Hear, O God.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure fro"}, {"id": "card_n_7e927528cb6b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_002: And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come"}, {"id": "card_n_c63285c27299", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_009: I resolved then to bend my mind to the holy Scriptures, that I might see what...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I resolved then to bend my mind to the holy Scriptures, that I might see what they were. But behold, I see a thing not understood by the proud, nor laid open to children, lowly in access, in its reces"}, {"id": "card_n_e0a778843c2d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_005: What then could be wanting unto Thy good, which Thou Thyself art, although th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then could be wanting unto Thy good, which Thou Thyself art, although these things had either never been, or remained without form; which thou madest, not out of any want, but out of the fulness "}, {"id": "card_n_51f8a7d4e0b1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_006: For I was in such wise striving to find out the rest, as one who had already ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For I was in such wise striving to find out the rest, as one who had already found that the incorruptible must needs be better than the corruptible: and Thee therefore, whatsoever Thou wert, I confess"}, {"id": "card_n_a4698509cbb9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_001: Lord, since eternity is Thine, art Thou ignorant of what I say to Thee?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, since eternity is Thine, art Thou ignorant of what I say to Thee? or dost Thou see in time, what passeth in time? Why then do I lay in order before Thee so many relations? 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Is not this house of God, not coe"}, {"id": "card_n_52fb8c52ef30", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_015: But if any excursive brain rove over the images of forepassed times, and wond...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But if any excursive brain rove over the images of forepassed times, and wonder that Thou the God Almighty and All-creating and All-supporting, Maker of heaven and earth, didst for innumerable ages fo"}, {"id": "card_n_f175418ead13", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_012: Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us, \"What was God doing...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us, \"What was God doing before He made heaven and earth? For if (say they) He were unemployed and wrought not, why does He not also henceforth, an"}]}