{"query": "The Knowing That Comes Through Stillness", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_ea5725d67984", "title": "The Stillness Is the Instruction", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThe command is strange by any practical measure. When the world presses in — when noise accumulates and demands multiply — the expected counsel is to act faster, p"}, {"id": "card_n_a44b6bc5aade", "title": "The Knowing That Comes Through Stillness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThere is a particular kind of knowing that cannot be forced or studied into existence. The psalmist does not say \"work harder and know\" or \"speak more and know.\" H"}, {"id": "card_n_3df9cadb44a4", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nSaturdays carry a peculiar pull — errands accumulate, the week's unfinished business presses in, and the mind races toward tomorrow before today has properly arriv"}, {"id": "card_n_8b8bf6ae4ebb", "title": "What the Quiet Reveals", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThere is a difference between silence and stillness. Silence is simply the absence of noise. Stillness, as the psalm commands it, is the active settling of a restl"}, {"id": "card_n_a6c94441bfe4", "title": "Romans 6", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?\n2. May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?\n3. Or don’t you know that all of us who were bap"}, {"id": "card_n_8832cd0d54b2", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_vii: Theophrastus, where he compares sin with sin (as after a vulgar sense such th...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Theophrastus, where he compares sin with sin (as after a vulgar sense such things I grant may be compared:) says well and like a philosopher, that those sins are greater which are committed through lu"}, {"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_a1558eedbb4e", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_08: Seven kinds of punishment come to the world for seven categories of transgres...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Seven kinds of punishment come to the world for seven categories of transgression:When some of them give tithes, and others do not give tithes, a famine from drought comes some go hungry, and others a"}, {"id": "card_n_2a9279be1c2e", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_011: What then do I love, when I love my God?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then do I love, when I love my God? who is He above the head of my soul? By my very soul will I ascend to Him. I will pass beyond that power whereby I am united to my body, and fill its whole fra"}, {"id": "card_n_8375b1560917", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_01_xiv: From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, a good si...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the gods I received that I had good grandfathers, and parents, a good sister, good masters, good domestics, loving kinsmen, almost all that I have; and that I never through haste and rashness tra"}, {"id": "card_n_ac431df2f39c", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §212: EVAN.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "EVAN. Right glad am I, said Evangelist, not that you have met with trials, but that you have been victors; and for that you have, notwithstanding many weaknesses, continued in the way to this very day"}, {"id": "card_n_9f851a24bb91", "title": "Romans 5", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;\n2. through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of t"}, {"id": "card_n_54e3f98be926", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §218: Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where this lu...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where this lusty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go through this town, must needs go out of the wor"}, {"id": "card_n_b9f6b9712c3c", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §309: CHR.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "CHR. But thou camest not in at the wicket-gate that is at the head of this way; thou camest in hither through that same crooked lane, and therefore, I fear, however thou mayest think of thyself, when "}, {"id": "card_n_0eb0b11f33ad", "title": "Hebrews 11", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.\n2. For by this, the elders obtained approval.\n3. By faith we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, s"}, {"id": "card_n_501861f299e5", "title": "Ignatius to Polycarp VII", "shelf": "patristics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Seeing that the church which is at Antioch in Syria is, as report has informed me, at peace, through your prayers, I also am the more encouraged, resting without anxiety in God, if indeed by means of "}, {"id": "card_n_d118116ae63c", "title": "John 1", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.\n2. The same was in the beginning with God.\n3. All things were made through him. Without him, nothing was made that ha"}, {"id": "card_n_fa6ce7542cd8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_06_022: For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so f...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "For when he wondered that I, whom he esteemed not slightly, should stick so fast in the birdlime of that pleasure, as to protest (so oft as we discussed it) that I could never lead a single life; and "}, {"id": "card_n_9499698a432b", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_07_xvi: Through the substance of the universe, as through a torrent pass all particul...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Through the substance of the universe, as through a torrent pass all particular bodies, being all of the same nature, and all joint workers with the universe itself as in one of our bodies so many mem"}, {"id": "card_n_c401b3bf6d07", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_05_xxvi: Why should imprudent unlearned souls trouble that which is both learned, and ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Why should imprudent unlearned souls trouble that which is both learned, and prudent? And which is that that is so? she that understandeth the beginning and the end, and hath the true knowledge of tha"}]}