{"query": "The Branch Does Not Strain", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_61213be989a5", "title": "The Branch Does Not Strain", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not produce fruit by effort. It produces"}, {"id": "card_n_4b8250d3571a", "title": "The Vine Does the Holding", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not strain to stay attached. It does not"}, {"id": "card_n_10e0d719020f", "title": "The Branch Does Not Choose the Soil", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch has no say in where the root goes. It does not"}, {"id": "card_n_4e8b942c6618", "title": "Easton: Branch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A symbol of kings descended from royal ancestors (Ezek. 17:3, 10; Dan. 11:7); of prosperity (Job 8:16); of the Messiah, a branch out of the root of the stem of Jesse (Isa. 11:1), the “beautiful branch"}, {"id": "card_n_62eb388b9b67", "title": "The Fruit Is Not Your Project", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nA branch does not manufacture sap. It does not schedul"}, {"id": "card_n_549b1b10d669", "title": "The Fruit Does Not Manufacture Itself", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.\"\n\nNotice what the branch does not do: it does not produc"}, {"id": "card_n_d025499fc999", "title": "The Voice Finds You Where You Are", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "He cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.\n\nFour days in the tomb. Wrapped in grave-cloth. Beyond argument, beyond remedy. And Jesus does not dig, does not negotiate, does not explain the biolog"}, {"id": "card_n_74603c751200", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_11_vii: A branch cut off from the continuity of that which was next unto it, must nee...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A branch cut off from the continuity of that which was next unto it, must needs be cut off from the whole tree: so a man that is divided from another man, is divided from the whole society. A branch i"}, {"id": "card_n_4ab28a27c153", "title": "The Source Is Already Inside", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.\n\nJesus does not tell the w"}, {"id": "card_n_416a0ee2264d", "title": "The Voice Before the Step", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.\"\n\nNotice the sequence Jesus gives: hearing comes first, then knowing, then following. He does not say the sheep study a map and then find "}, {"id": "card_n_79769921b892", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_13_028: And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And hereby, in Thy Word, not the deepness of the sea, but the earth separated from the bitterness of the waters, brings forth, not the moving creature that hath life, but the living soul. For now hath"}, {"id": "card_n_e998ba221253", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_01_05: When I had poured out my griefs in this long and unbroken strain of lamentati...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When I had poured out my griefs in this long and unbroken strain of lamentation, she, with calm countenance, and in no wise disturbed at my complainings, thus spake: 'When I saw thee sorrowful, in tea"}, {"id": "card_n_2f05f5f9c92e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_033: Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Does not my soul most truly confess unto Thee, that I do measure times? Do I then measure, O my God, and know not what I measure? I measure the motion of a body in time; and the time itself do I not m"}, {"id": "card_n_c180a0c53a10", "title": "The Command Reaches Where You Are", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.\"\n\nLazarus was not standing at the door waiting. He was in the tomb — wrapped, sealed, four days gone. Yet the command of "}, {"id": "card_n_a2d4265d581b", "title": "John 15", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. “I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.\n2. Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.\n3. You are alr"}, {"id": "card_n_683444fbc113", "title": "Barnabas X", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "different kinds of food._ Now, wherefore did Moses say, “Thou shalt not eat the swine, nor the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the raven, nor any fish which is not possessed of scales?” He embraced three doc"}, {"id": "card_n_f175418ead13", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_012: Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us, \"What was God doing...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lo, are they not full of their old leaven, who say to us, \"What was God doing before He made heaven and earth? 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Their hands were the "}, {"id": "card_n_2e5343daa4af", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_03_05: 'Well, then, does sovereignty and the intimacy of kings prove able to confer ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "'Well, then, does sovereignty and the intimacy of kings prove able to confer power? Why, surely does not the happiness of kings endure for ever? And yet antiquity is full of examples, and these days a"}]}