{"query": "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9abd304f9b9c", "title": "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Love divine, all loves excelling,\nJoy of heaven, to earth come down,\nFix in us Thy humble dwelling,\nAll Thy faithful mercies crown.\nJesus, Thou art all compassion,\nPure, unbounded love Thou art;\nVisit"}, {"id": "card_n_816de080dbe3", "title": "1 Clement XLIX", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let him who has love in Christ keep the commandments of Christ. Who can describe the [blessed] bond of the love of God? What man is able to tell the excellence of its beauty, as it ought to be told? T"}, {"id": "card_n_c5fe1c6ef7ed", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_471: In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love l...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love. [\"In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all her others what she loves is love.\" {--Lord Byron, }Don Juan, Can"}, {"id": "card_n_cbeb2134e224", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_16: All love that depends on a something, [when the] thing ceases, [the] love cea...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "All love that depends on a something, [when the] thing ceases, [the] love ceases; and [all love] that does not depend on anything, will never cease. What is an example of love that depended on a somet"}, {"id": "card_n_5c1be1ca201d", "title": "1 Corinthians 13", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.\n2. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowled"}, {"id": "card_n_35cc98a7f3bd", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_008: Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Not with doubting, but with assured consciousness, do I love Thee, Lord. Thou hast stricken my heart with Thy word, and I loved Thee. Yea also heaven, and earth, and all that therein is, behold, on ev"}, {"id": "card_n_023fb5a29c5f", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_068: It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a d...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love--Plus"}, {"id": "card_n_c9ab39f0d2c7", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_03_001: To Carthage I came, where there sang all around me in my ears a cauldron of u...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To Carthage I came, where there sang all around me in my ears a cauldron of unholy loves. I loved not yet, yet I loved to love, and out of a deep-seated want, I hated myself for wanting not. I sought "}, {"id": "card_n_efa947a55d3c", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_07: Blessed is he who understandeth what it is to love Jesus, and to despise hims...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Blessed is he who understandeth what it is to love Jesus, and to despise himself for Jesus’ sake. He must give up all that he loveth for his Beloved, for Jesus will be loved alone above all things. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_9cc87a3d875d", "title": "Polycarp to the Philippians IV", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“But the love of money is the root of all evils.” Knowing, therefore, that “as we brought nothing into the world, so we can carry nothing out,” let us arm ourselves with the armour of righteousness; a"}, {"id": "card_n_d4e566bec511", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_014: This is it that is loved in friends; and so loved, that a man's conscience co...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "This is it that is loved in friends; and so loved, that a man's conscience condemns itself, if he love not him that loves him again, or love not again him that loves him, looking for nothing from his "}, {"id": "card_n_7c726252881a", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_09: It is no hard thing to despise human comfort when divine is present.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "It is no hard thing to despise human comfort when divine is present. It is a great thing, yea very great, to be able to bear the loss both of human and divine comfort; and for the love of God willingl"}, {"id": "card_c_e3f43d99ddbc", "title": "La Rochefoucauld §laroch_068: It is difficult to define love; all we can say is, that in the soul it is a d... references Love", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Love (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_61809df7d3f6", "title": "Sermon on the Mount §som_09_love_your_enemies: \"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate you...", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy. ' But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those "}, {"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_c_f816abbf3965", "title": "Psalm 116 — I Love the LORD references Love", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Mentions Love (person) — the name appears in the card text; the entry is Easton's Bible Dictionary (public domain), which classifies it as a person."}, {"id": "card_n_29cd469adbc5", "title": "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When I survey the wondrous cross\nOn which the Prince of glory died,\nMy richest gain I count but loss,\nAnd pour contempt on all my pride.\n\nForbid it, Lord, that I should boast,\nSave in the death of Chr"}, {"id": "card_n_e369afd05213", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_06_06: Greater is learning Torah than the priesthood and than royalty, for royalty i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Greater is learning Torah than the priesthood and than royalty, for royalty is acquired by thirty stages, and the priesthood by twenty-four, but the Torah by forty-eight things. By study, Attentive li"}, {"id": "card_n_f4a0b940ddc2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_022: For so did I then love men, upon the judgment of men, not Thine, O my God, in...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For so did I then love men, upon the judgment of men, not Thine, O my God, in Whom no man is deceived. But yet why not for qualities, like those of a famous charioteer, or fighter with beasts in the t"}, {"id": "card_n_1009fc598ef0", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_10: Now will I speak again, O my Lord, and hold not my peace; I will say in the e...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Now will I speak again, O my Lord, and hold not my peace; I will say in the ears of my God, my Lord, and my King, who is exalted above all, _Oh how plentiful is Thy goodness which Thou hast laid up fo"}]}