{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_031: For behold, O Lord,", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_b44c4def3dfe", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_001: Let me know Thee, O Lord, who knowest me: let me know Thee, as I am known.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let me know Thee, O Lord, who knowest me: let me know Thee, as I am known. Power of my soul, enter into it, and fit it for Thee, that Thou mayest have and hold it without spot or wrinkle. This is my h"}, {"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_a5d9dbd6f0d2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_009: Theft is punished by Thy law, O Lord, and the law written in the hearts of me...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Theft is punished by Thy law, O Lord, and the law written in the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not. For what thief will abide a thief? not even a rich thief, one stealing through want. "}, {"id": "card_n_818b335d9f10", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_046: Thanks to Thee, O Lord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Thanks to Thee, O Lord. We behold the heaven and earth, whether the corporeal part, superior and inferior, or the spiritual and corporeal creature; and in the adorning of these parts, whereof the univ"}, {"id": "card_n_d5318e368d58", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_006: Behold, the heavens and the earth are; they proclaim that they were created; ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, the heavens and the earth are; they proclaim that they were created; for they change and vary. Whereas whatsoever hath not been made, and yet is, hath nothing in it, which before it had not; a"}, {"id": "card_n_1a0dcf4e34eb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_015: Behold, I too say, O my God, Where art Thou?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, I too say, O my God, Where art Thou? see, where Thou art! in Thee I breathe a little, when I pour out my soul by myself in the voice of joy and praise, the sound of him that keeps holy-day. An"}, {"id": "card_n_97c7809f3d80", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_028: My soul is on fire to know this most intricate enigma.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My soul is on fire to know this most intricate enigma. Shut it not up, O Lord my God, good Father; through Christ I beseech Thee, do not shut up these usual, yet hidden things, from my desire, that it"}, {"id": "card_n_a31688f13822", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_062: Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praise...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praises, for my own sake, but for the good of my neighbour. And whether it be so with me, I know not. For herein I know less of m"}, {"id": "card_n_bf7857dc238f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_034: Hearken, O God, Thou best judge; Truth Itself, hearken to what I shall say to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Hearken, O God, Thou best judge; Truth Itself, hearken to what I shall say to this gainsayer, hearken, for before Thee do I speak, and before my brethren, who employ Thy law lawfully, to the end of ch"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_8b14d9b3f11a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_041: I will then speak what is true in Thy sight, O Lord, that when carnal men and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I will then speak what is true in Thy sight, O Lord, that when carnal men and infidels (for the gaining and initiating whom, the initiatory Sacraments and the mighty workings of miracles are necessary"}, {"id": "card_n_dabe5995cdb5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_039: But because Thy loving-kindness is better than all lives, behold, my life is ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But because Thy loving-kindness is better than all lives, behold, my life is but a distraction, and Thy right hand upheld me, in my Lord the Son of man, the Mediator betwixt Thee, The One, and us many"}, {"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_b11fd37b562b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_037: I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture minds me of; ye...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I would also say, O Lord my God, what the following Scripture minds me of; yea, I will say, and not fear. For I will say the truth, Thyself inspiring me with what Thou willedst me to deliver out of th"}, {"id": "card_n_93a415156425", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_023: Permit me, Lord, to seek further.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Permit me, Lord, to seek further. O my hope, let not my purpose be confounded. For if times past and to come be, I would know where they be. Which yet if I cannot, yet I know, wherever they be, they a"}, {"id": "card_n_0a05e3e07adf", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_005: Oh!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Oh! that I might repose on Thee! Oh! that Thou wouldest enter into my heart, and inebriate it, that I may forget my ills, and embrace Thee, my sole good! What art Thou to me? In Thy pity, teach me to "}, {"id": "card_n_cee94141b069", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_018: Other waters there be above this firmament, I believe immortal, and separated...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Other waters there be above this firmament, I believe immortal, and separated from earthly corruption. Let them praise Thy Name, let them praise Thee, the supercelestial people, Thine angels, who have"}, {"id": "card_n_7457ea9def62", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_009: Angels fell away, man's soul fell away, and thereby pointed the abyss in that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Angels fell away, man's soul fell away, and thereby pointed the abyss in that dark depth, ready for the whole spiritual creation, hadst not Thou said from the beginning, Let there be light, and there "}, {"id": "card_n_d5ad2bcf74a9", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_056: In this so vast wilderness, full of snares and dangers, behold many of them I...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "In this so vast wilderness, full of snares and dangers, behold many of them I have cut off, and thrust out of my heart, as Thou hast given me, O God of my salvation. And yet when dare I say, since so "}]}