{"query": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_038: But they are fed by", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_37d789e01081", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_038: But they are fed by these fruits, that are delighted with them; nor are they ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But they are fed by these fruits, that are delighted with them; nor are they delighted with them, whose God is their belly. For neither in them that yield them, are the things yielded the fruit, but w"}, {"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_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_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"}, {"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_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_2fcd81d6862d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_014: But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But as yet by faith and not by sight, for by hope we are saved; but hope that is seen, is not hope. As yet doth deep call unto deep, but now in the voice of Thy water-spouts. As yet doth he that saith"}, {"id": "card_n_6578738612f7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_019: The memory containeth also reasons and laws innumerable of numbers and dimens...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The memory containeth also reasons and laws innumerable of numbers and dimensions, none of which hath any bodily sense impressed; seeing they have neither colour, nor sound, nor taste, nor smell, nor "}, {"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_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_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_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? 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Why seek they"}, {"id": "card_n_370914788e0d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_017: But now when I hear that there be three kinds of questions, \"Whether the thin...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But now when I hear that there be three kinds of questions, \"Whether the thing be? what it is? of what kind it is?\" I do indeed hold the images of the sounds of which those words be composed, and that"}, {"id": "card_n_1d3923aa7428", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_004: For with their understanding and wit, which Thou bestowedst on them, they sea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For with their understanding and wit, which Thou bestowedst on them, they search out these things; and much have they found out; and foretold, many years before, eclipses of those luminaries, the sun "}, {"id": "card_n_3b50a50cbffd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_017: And I beheld the other things below Thee, and I perceived that they neither a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And I beheld the other things below Thee, and I perceived that they neither altogether are, nor altogether are not, for they are, since they are from Thee, but are not, because they are not what Thou "}, {"id": "card_n_9f1c1ac9e38b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_031: Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, and love, and long for it? 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