{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_035: What then shall I s", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_aa7c0f1d489c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_035: What then shall I say, O Truth my Light?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then shall I say, O Truth my Light? \"that it was idly said, and without meaning?\" Not so, O Father of piety, far be it from a minister of Thy word to say so. And if I understand not what Thou mea"}, {"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_d93cf988b5e8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_019: \"Perish every thing, dismiss we these empty vanities, and betake ourselves to...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Perish every thing, dismiss we these empty vanities, and betake ourselves to the one search for truth! 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The four short then, the first, third, fifth, and seventh, are but single, in respect of the four long"}, {"id": "card_n_d2e50284c7f6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_027: What answer I made her unto these things, I remember not.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What answer I made her unto these things, I remember not. For scarce five days after, or not much more, she fell sick of a fever; and in that sickness one day she fell into a swoon, and was for a whil"}, {"id": "card_n_6bd1867c8704", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_026: Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this am I myself. What am I then, O my God? What nature am I? A life various"}, {"id": "card_n_dbb816175c3d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_020: All these things I remember, and how I learnt them I remember.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "All these things I remember, and how I learnt them I remember. Many things also most falsely objected against them have I heard, and remember; which though they be false, yet is it not false that I re"}, {"id": "card_n_392f5d9647b4", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_027: Most eagerly then did I seize that venerable writing of Thy Spirit; and chief...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Most eagerly then did I seize that venerable writing of Thy Spirit; and chiefly the Apostle Paul. Whereupon those difficulties vanished away, wherein he once seemed to me to contradict himself, and th"}, {"id": "card_n_28b8b189dc3f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_018: If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for "}, {"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_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_fcaf2b7a20dd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_08_023: For if there be so many contrary natures as there be conflicting wills, there...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For if there be so many contrary natures as there be conflicting wills, there shall now be not two only, but many. If a man deliberate whether he should go to their conventicle or to the theatre, thes"}, {"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_4dd2e3690b96", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_09_012: When shall I recall all which passed in those holy-days?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When shall I recall all which passed in those holy-days? Yet neither have I forgotten, nor will I pass over the severity of Thy scourge, and the wonderful swiftness of Thy mercy. Thou didst then torme"}, {"id": "card_n_2f9f80668791", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_01_007: Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Yet suffer me to speak unto Thy mercy, me, dust and ashes. Yet suffer me to speak, since I speak to Thy mercy, and not to scornful man. Thou too, perhaps, despisest me, yet wilt Thou return and have c"}, {"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_c4ebdd8a6f8b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_029: Now then let Thy ministers work upon the earth,--not as upon the waters of in...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now then let Thy ministers work upon the earth,--not as upon the waters of infidelity, by preaching and speaking by miracles, and Sacraments, and mystic words; wherein ignorance, the mother of admirat"}]}