{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_016: Or who, except Thou", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_07f578ec78f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_016: Or who, except Thou, our God, made for us that firmament of authority over us...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Or who, except Thou, our God, made for us that firmament of authority over us in Thy Divine Scripture? as it is said, For heaven shall be folded up like a scroll; and now is it stretched over us like "}, {"id": "card_n_944bbaa1619b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_003: Do the heaven and earth then contain Thee, since Thou fillest them?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Do the heaven and earth then contain Thee, since Thou fillest them? or dost Thou fill them and yet overflow, since they do not contain Thee? And whither, when the heaven and the earth are filled, pour"}, {"id": "card_n_d00550e148c0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_036: But where in my memory residest Thou, O Lord, where residest Thou there?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But where in my memory residest Thou, O Lord, where residest Thou there? what manner of lodging hast Thou framed for Thee? what manner of sanctuary hast Thou builded for Thee? Thou hast given this hon"}, {"id": "card_n_552c2965c6bb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_016: So in acts of violence, where there is a wish to hurt, whether by reproach or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "So in acts of violence, where there is a wish to hurt, whether by reproach or injury; and these either for revenge, as one enemy against another; or for some profit belonging to another, as the robber"}, {"id": "card_n_51aaccf372cf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_007: But how didst Thou make the heaven and the earth?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how didst Thou make the heaven and the earth? and what the engine of Thy so mighty fabric? For it was not as a human artificer, forming one body from another, according to the discretion of his mi"}, {"id": "card_n_8859147da93b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_001: I call upon Thee, O my God, my mercy, Who createdst me, and forgottest not me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I call upon Thee, O my God, my mercy, Who createdst me, and forgottest not me, forgetting Thee. I call Thee into my soul which, by the longing Thyself inspirest into her, Thou preparest for Thee. Fors"}, {"id": "card_n_1d034ae94589", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_006: Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall clean"}, {"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_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_9c54052ac290", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_043: And I looked narrowly to find, whether seven, or eight times Thou sawest that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I looked narrowly to find, whether seven, or eight times Thou sawest that Thy works were good, when they pleased Thee; but in Thy seeing I found no times, whereby I might understand that Thou sawe"}, {"id": "card_n_af6d19f1cfed", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_004: What art Thou then, my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most "}, {"id": "card_n_b8858c409f6f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_009: I panted after honours, gains, marriage; and thou deridedst me.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I panted after honours, gains, marriage; and thou deridedst me. In these desires I underwent most bitter crosses, Thou being the more gracious, the less Thou sufferedst aught to grow sweet to me, whic"}, {"id": "card_n_80581c8b81ae", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_038: Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Too late loved I Thee, O Thou Beauty of ancient days, yet ever new! too late I loved Thee! And behold, Thou wert within, and I abroad, and there I searched for Thee; deformed I, plunging amid those fa"}, {"id": "card_n_25693c20df48", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_042: And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, O God, sawest every thing that Thou hadst made, and, behold, it was very good. Yea we also see the same, and behold, all things are very good. Of the several kinds of Thy works, when Thou ha"}, {"id": "card_n_e1a80474b5bd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_001: Accept the sacrifice of my confessions from the ministry of my tongue, which ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Accept the sacrifice of my confessions from the ministry of my tongue, which Thou hast formed and stirred up to confess unto Thy name. Heal Thou all my bones, and let them say, O Lord, who is like unt"}, {"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_202888449903", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_016: Nor dost Thou by time, precede time: else shouldest Thou not precede all times.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Nor dost Thou by time, precede time: else shouldest Thou not precede all times. But Thou precedest all things past, by the sublimity of an ever-present eternity; and surpassest all future because they"}, {"id": "card_n_8f3b66778ec8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_058: And Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healedst me ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou knowest how far Thou hast already changed me, who first healedst me of the lust of vindicating myself, that so Thou mightest forgive all the rest of my iniquities, and heal all my infirmities"}, {"id": "card_n_5f4cbdf547c1", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_019: In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In boyhood itself, however (so much less dreaded for me than youth), I loved not study, and hated to be forced to it. Yet I was forced; and this was well done towards me, but I did not well; for, unle"}, {"id": "card_n_12f1a7ad5edc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_042: Lastly, O Lord, who art God and not flesh and blood, if man did see less, cou...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lastly, O Lord, who art God and not flesh and blood, if man did see less, could any thing be concealed from Thy good Spirit (who shall lead me into the land of uprightness), which Thou Thyself by thos"}]}