{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_034: But what is this, a", "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_5d4220bafc3a", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_006: This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This is the fruit of my confessions of what I am, not of what I have been, to confess this, not before Thee only, in a secret exultation with trembling, and a secret sorrow with hope; but in the ears "}, {"id": "card_n_d8df57262ee0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_033: Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let no man harass me then, by saying, Moses thought not as you say, but as I say: for if he should ask me, \"How know you that Moses thought that which you infer out of his words?\" I ought to take it i"}, {"id": "card_n_934645b2b6b4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_004: But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But do Thou, my inmost Physician, make plain unto me what fruit I may reap by doing it. For the confessions of my past sins, which Thou hast forgiven and covered, that Thou mightest bless me in Thee, "}, {"id": "card_n_98aabc636e9b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_016: This then is what I conceive, O my God, when I hear Thy Scripture saying, In ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This then is what I conceive, O my God, when I hear Thy Scripture saying, In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth: and the Earth was invisible and without form, and darkness was upon the deep, and "}, {"id": "card_n_1f48bfb3616e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_061: What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then do I confess unto Thee in this kind of temptation, O Lord? What, but that I am delighted with praise, but with truth itself, more than with praise? For were it proposed to me, whether I woul"}, {"id": "card_n_592b275b3694", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_021: Whence is this monstrousness?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end? Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me. Whence is t"}, {"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_f02c31493568", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_032: And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that I know that I speak this in time, and that having long spoken of time, that very \"long\" is "}, {"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_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_a6b76398421f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_034: But what is this, and what kind of mystery?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But what is this, and what kind of mystery? Behold, Thou blessest mankind, O Lord, that they may increase and multiply, and replenish the earth; dost Thou not thereby give us a hint to understand some"}, {"id": "card_n_4377a969b396", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_010: Is not this corporeal figure apparent to all whose senses are perfect?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Is not this corporeal figure apparent to all whose senses are perfect? why then speaks it not the same to all? Animals small and great see it, but they cannot ask it: because no reason is set over the"}, {"id": "card_n_d5c40d3246d4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_052: We therefore see these things which Thou madest, because they are: but they a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We therefore see these things which Thou madest, because they are: but they are, because Thou seest them. And we see without, that they are, and within, that they are good, but Thou sawest them there,"}, {"id": "card_n_4025b1b3744f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_003: And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not w...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And now this earth was invisible and without form, and there was I know not what depth of abyss, upon which there was no light, because it had no shape. Therefore didst Thou command it to be written, "}, {"id": "card_n_8fcb53d51da5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_027: I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to s...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I said then even now, we measure times as they pass, in order to be able to say, this time is twice so much as that one; or, this is just so much as that; and so of any other parts of time, which be m"}, {"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_d9a87d92cd43", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_013: By this may the soul, whose pilgrimage is made long and far away, by this may...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "By this may the soul, whose pilgrimage is made long and far away, by this may she understand, if she now thirsts for Thee, if her tears be now become her bread, while they daily say unto her, Where is"}, {"id": "card_n_76413f9f7d97", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_12_021: \"What say ye to me, O ye gainsayers that I was speaking unto, who yet believe...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"What say ye to me, O ye gainsayers that I was speaking unto, who yet believe Moses to have been the holy servant of God, and his books the oracles of the Holy Ghost? Is not this house of God, not coe"}, {"id": "card_n_1e57780a5016", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_017: What then was this feeling?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then was this feeling? For of a truth it was too foul: and woe was me, who had it. But yet what was it? Who can understand his errors? It was the sport, which as it were tickled our hearts, that "}]}