{"query": "The Initiative Was Never Yours", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f0bafed54207", "title": "The Initiative Was Never Yours", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit.\n\nThere is a quiet relief in these words that we often miss because we read them too quickly. Je"}, {"id": "card_n_1237ffa9d991", "title": "The Pressure Architecture — Energy Management", "shelf": "domains", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ideally maintain full pressure for 3x5 rounds.\nBurst strategically when necessary.\n\nRound 1: establish pressure aggressively.\nRound 2: recover intelligently while preserving initiative.\nRound 3: sprin"}, {"id": "card_n_1a75580d235c", "title": "Genesis 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.\n2. The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.\n3"}, {"id": "card_n_7f184b75428e", "title": "Easton: Samaritan Pentateuch", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On the return from the Exile, the Jews refused the Samaritans participation with them in the worship at Jerusalem, and the latter separated from all fellowship with them, and built a temple for themse"}, {"id": "card_n_1e57780a5016", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_02_017: What then was this feeling?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then was this feeling? For of a truth it was too foul: and woe was me, who had it. But yet what was it? Who can understand his errors? It was the sport, which as it were tickled our hearts, that "}, {"id": "card_n_e7e731e3225d", "title": "A parable — Burnout well", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman drew water from her own strength for many years. The well went lower each season. When at last it was dry she sat at the wellhead and wept. A stranger came and said, 'There is another well, de"}, {"id": "card_n_07c8246e46f5", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_04_009: At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At this grief my heart was utterly darkened; and whatever I beheld was death. My native country was a torment to me, and my father's house a strange unhappiness; and whatever I had shared with him, wa"}, {"id": "card_n_29c59372926d", "title": "Easton: Candlestick", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The lamp-stand, “candelabrum,” which Moses was commanded to make for the tabernacle, according to the pattern shown him. 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His circumcision-name was Saul, and probably the name Paul was also given to him in infancy “for use in the Gentile world,” as “Saul” would be hi"}, {"id": "card_n_5fb49f6d21b3", "title": "Easton: Mary", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hebrew Miriam. (1.) The wife of Joseph, the mother of Jesus, called the “Virgin Mary,” though never so designated in Scripture (Matt. 2:11; Acts 1:14). Little is known of her personal history. Her gen"}, {"id": "card_n_0e9a1a53ebf7", "title": "Easton: Cain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A possession; a spear. (1.) The first-born son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4). He became a tiller of the ground, as his brother Abel followed the pursuits of pastoral life. He was “a sullen, self-willed, ha"}, {"id": "card_n_13fea045d567", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_045: I hear the voice of my God commanding, Let not your hearts be overcharged wit...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I hear the voice of my God commanding, Let not your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness. Drunkenness is far from me; Thou wilt have mercy, that it come not near me. 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