{"query": "One Small Adjustment", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_38199a4eed49", "title": "One Small Adjustment", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find.\"\n\nThe disciples had worked through the night and caught nothing. They were not lazy. They were not faithless. They were simply fishing f"}, {"id": "card_n_1b6fc0a79c10", "title": "Ignatius to the Magnesians VII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "As therefore the Lord did nothing without the Father, being united to Him, neither by Himself nor by the apostles, so neither do ye anything without the bishop and presbyters. Neither endeavour that a"}, {"id": "card_n_137e090d24e8", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_04_xxxiii: Ever consider and think upon the world as being but one living substance, and...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ever consider and think upon the world as being but one living substance, and having but one soul, and how all things in the world, are terminated into one sensitive power; and are done by one general"}, {"id": "card_n_5e137e5a1acd", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xxv: What a small portion of vast and infinite eternity it is, that is allowed unt...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What a small portion of vast and infinite eternity it is, that is allowed unto every one of us, and how soon it vanisheth into the general age of the world: of the common substance, and of the common "}, {"id": "card_n_0c29d0e6bba0", "title": "A parable — Calling finding", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A prophet stood on a mountain and waited for God in the wind. 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The master pointed to the floor that needed sweeping. The man swept the floor that day, and the next, and the next. After many years the master sa"}, {"id": "card_n_30088c59ad6d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xxiii: There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by walls and moun...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There is but one light of the sun, though it be intercepted by walls and mountains, and other thousand objects. 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For I ask, Seeing \"day\" denotes not the stay only "}, {"id": "card_n_fa548a5d3281", "title": "Elijah Under the Juniper", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "After a great victory and great fear, the prophet collapses in self-pity, requests death, is fed by an angel, walks forty days, and is rebuked gently by a still small voice.\n\nFailure mode: Conflating "}, {"id": "card_n_937927508157", "title": "Simeon Who Waited", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Just and devout; waiting for the consolation of Israel; promised he would not see death before he saw the Christ; led by the Spirit to the temple at the right moment; receives the infant in his arms; "}, {"id": "card_n_a4f4879a436b", "title": "A parable — Doubt hidden", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man searched for the One who made the world, and could not see him. He concluded the One was not there. He had not yet considered that the made could not contain the maker — that any God you could s"}, {"id": "card_n_2c24d977d323", "title": "Easton: Hanan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Merciful. (1.) A Benjamite (1 Chr. 8:23). (2.) One of David’s heroes (1 Chr. 11:43). (3.) Jer. 35:4. (4.) A descendant of Saul (1 Chr. 8:38). (5.) One of the Nethinim (Ezra 2:46). (6.) One of the Levi"}, {"id": "card_n_073589246b74", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_020: Who gathered the embittered together into one society?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Who gathered the embittered together into one society? 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The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”\n3. He told them this"}]}