{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_030: But Thy word, O God", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_c535def84bb6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_030: But Thy word, O God, is the fountain of life eternal; and passeth not away: w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But Thy word, O God, is the fountain of life eternal; and passeth not away: wherefore this departure of the soul is restrained by Thy word, when it is said unto us, Be not conformed unto this world; t"}, {"id": "card_n_2024c1ff59f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_013: And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest grace unto the humble, and by how great an act of Thy mercy Thou hadst traced out to men the way of humility, in that Thy Wo"}, {"id": "card_n_f4d3f6455abc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_004: Lord, have mercy on me, and hear my desire.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, have mercy on me, and hear my desire. For it is not, I deem, of the earth, not of gold and silver, and precious stones, or gorgeous apparel, or honours and offices, or the pleasures of the flesh"}, {"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_2288684e8c31", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_014: Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Again I read there, that God the Word was born not of flesh nor of blood, nor of the will of man, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God. 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The Word itself calleth thee to return: and there is the place of rest imperturbabl"}, {"id": "card_n_b1436f2d5b2a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_005: But they knew not the way, Thy Word, by Whom Thou madest these things which t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they knew not the way, Thy Word, by Whom Thou madest these things which they number, and themselves who number, and the sense whereby they perceive what they number, and the understanding, out of "}, {"id": "card_n_3f19baf7aecd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_024: Hear, Lord, my prayer; let not my soul faint under Thy discipline, nor let me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hear, Lord, my prayer; let not my soul faint under Thy discipline, nor let me faint in confessing unto Thee all Thy mercies, whereby Thou hast drawn me out of all my most evil ways, that Thou mightest"}, {"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_c93472531537", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_026: Speak I untruly, or do I mingle and confound, and not distinguish between the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Speak I untruly, or do I mingle and confound, and not distinguish between the lucid knowledge of these things in the firmament of heaven, and the material works in the wavy sea, and under the firmamen"}, {"id": "card_n_3f1666c71e9b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_035: But now, with a heart cured of that wound, wherein it might seem blameworthy ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now, with a heart cured of that wound, wherein it might seem blameworthy for an earthly feeling, I pour out unto Thee, our God, in behalf of that Thy handmaid, a far different kind of tears, flowi"}, {"id": "card_n_b9c13a8b9681", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_010: Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Why, I beseech Thee, O Lord my God? I see it in a way; but how to express it, I know not, unless it be, that whatsoever begins to be, and leaves off to be, begins then, and leaves off then, when in Th"}, {"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_44fcbdff115e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_022: With these I now parley a little in Thy presence, O my God, who grant all the...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "With these I now parley a little in Thy presence, O my God, who grant all these things to be true, which Thy Truth whispers unto my soul. For those who deny these things, let them bark and deafen them"}, {"id": "card_n_729d5025d3dc", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_024: Then I sought a way of obtaining strength sufficient to enjoy Thee; and found...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Then I sought a way of obtaining strength sufficient to enjoy Thee; and found it not, until I embraced that Mediator betwixt God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who is over all, God blessed for evermor"}, {"id": "card_n_35cc98a7f3bd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_008: Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord. Thou hast stricken my heart with Thy word, and I loved Thee. Yea also heaven, and earth, and all that therein is, behold, on ev"}, {"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_13d27a699b67", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_031: For behold, O Lord, our God, our Creator, when our affections have been restr...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For behold, O Lord, our God, our Creator, when our affections have been restrained from the love of the world, by which we died through evil-living; and begun to be a living soul, through good living;"}, {"id": "card_n_38a0eb4f19cf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_015: Turn us, O God of Hosts, show us Thy countenance, and we shall be whole.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Turn us, O God of Hosts, show us Thy countenance, and we shall be whole. For whithersoever the soul of man turns itself, unless toward Thee, it is riveted upon sorrows, yea though it is riveted on thi"}]}