{"query": "Devotional: The Long Path to Glory", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e43b652f1e07", "title": "Devotional: The Long Path to Glory", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "We all have a talent to unlock — and a cross to bear. Our gift should be used for the glory of His Kingdom in some way. Our cross should be handed over to Him — but often, we carry it for miles on our"}, {"id": "card_n_ccbf2a23f514", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_018: And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or to come. A long time past (for example) we call an hundred years since; and a long time to come, an hundred years hence. B"}, {"id": "card_n_29926e451adb", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_06: The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The testimony of a good conscience is the glory of a good man. Have a good conscience and thou shalt ever have joy. A good conscience is able to bear exceeding much, and is exceeding joyful in the mid"}, {"id": "card_n_1d1f86ed3862", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_035: \"Deus Creator omnium,\" this verse of eight syllables alternates between short...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Deus Creator omnium,\" this verse of eight syllables alternates between short and long syllables. The four short then, the first, third, fifth, and seventh, are but single, in respect of the four long"}, {"id": "card_n_534611934a3f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_031: Dost Thou bid me assent, if any define time to be \"motion of a body?\" Thou do...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Dost Thou bid me assent, if any define time to be \"motion of a body?\" Thou dost not bid me. For that no body is moved, but in time, I hear; this Thou sayest; but that the motion of a body is time, I h"}, {"id": "card_n_d23c563fb860", "title": "Easton: Glory", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. kabhod; Gr. doxa). (1.) Abundance, wealth, treasure, and hence honour (Ps. 49:12); glory (Gen. 31:1; Matt. 4:8; Rev. 21:24, 26). (2.) Honour, dignity (1 Kings 3:13; Heb. 2:7 1 Pet. 1:24); of God"}, {"id": "card_n_a1e237176346", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Lord, Make Me a Tool Worn to Your Hand", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "God what is next for me? I look for your light. I can’t see the way. Please make my way known. I do not want to spend my life in the wilderness. I seek your face.\n\nOpen the door to my next chapter O’ "}, {"id": "card_n_a7de972699bd", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_15: The Voice of the Beloved Thou oughtest to seek earnestly the grace of devotio...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Beloved Thou oughtest to seek earnestly the grace of devotion, to ask it fervently, to wait for it patiently and faithfully, to receive it gratefully, to preserve it humbly, to work w"}, {"id": "card_n_82c6ff8858b3", "title": "Devotional: The Threat of Self", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The most dangerous part of this path for me is the threat of self. It is so easy to find yourself wise. To believe that any of this is the result of self.\n\nThe only thing to do is die to self. Give co"}, {"id": "card_n_9adf884ca117", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_020: See how the present time, which alone we found could be called long, is abrid...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "See how the present time, which alone we found could be called long, is abridged to the length scarce of one day. But let us examine that also; because neither is one day present as a whole. For it is"}, {"id": "card_n_1660342d454f", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_23: Very quickly will there be an end of thee here; take heed therefore how it wi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Very quickly will there be an end of thee here; take heed therefore how it will be with thee in another world. To-day man is, and to-morrow he will be seen no more. And being removed out of sight, qui"}, {"id": "card_n_0cd03a08d2bf", "title": "1 Clement XIII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let us therefore, brethren, be of humble mind, laying aside all haughtiness, and pride, and foolishness, and angry feelings; and let us act according to that which is written (for the Holy Spirit sait"}, {"id": "card_n_708e78e20648", "title": "Psalm 96 — Psalm 96", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Sing to Yahweh a new song! Sing to Yahweh, all the earth. Sing to Yahweh! Bless his name! Proclaim his salvation from day to day! Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the"}, {"id": "card_n_f5afcf5cece3", "title": "Devotional: Prayer: Daily Seeking God’s Guidance", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Father, I wake each day seeking Your guidance. I know that without You I am blind, stumbling in darkness. But with You, the path is straight, and the light is sure.\n\nTeach me to quiet my heart, to hea"}, {"id": "card_n_7f2f52140183", "title": "Devotional: Restoration", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "God created us to live in love. In love with Him, those around us, and our environment. We were programmed for that state, but the world has corrupted that programming. Sin is a virus in the code. It "}, {"id": "card_n_f73877a9def8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_037: But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But how is that future diminished or consumed, which as yet is not? or how that past increased, which is now no longer, save that in the mind which enacteth this, there be three things done? For it ex"}, {"id": "card_n_383123703173", "title": "Psalm 29 — Psalm 29", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "<<A Psalm by David.>> Ascribe to Yahweh, you sons of the mighty, ascribe to Yahweh glory and strength. Ascribe to Yahweh the glory due to his name. Worship Yahweh in holy array. Yahweh's voice is on t"}, {"id": "card_n_ad108aab8e48", "title": "Didache 10", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now after ye are filled thus do ye give thanks: We thank thee, holy Father, for thy holy name, which thou hast caused to dwell in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality which thou"}, {"id": "card_n_83eeebfc4d0d", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_04_17: The Voice of the Disciple With the deepest devotion and fervent love, with al...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The Voice of the Disciple With the deepest devotion and fervent love, with all affection and fervour of heart, I long to receive Thee, O Lord, even as many Saints and devout persons have desired Thee "}, {"id": "card_n_c3f95ab81a10", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_51: “My Son, thou art not always able to continue in very fervent desire after vi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, thou art not always able to continue in very fervent desire after virtues, nor to stand fast in the loftier region of contemplation; but thou must of necessity sometimes descend to lower thin"}]}