{"query": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_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_8923db647398", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §200: FAITH.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FAITH. No, not I; I am only for setting things right. But what is the second thing whereby you would prove a discovery of a work of grace in the heart? TALK. Great knowledge of gospel mysteries. FAITH"}, {"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_da61b7cf43cd", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxiv: As he that is bitten by a mad dog, is afraid of everything almost that he see...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As he that is bitten by a mad dog, is afraid of everything almost that he seeth: so unto him, whom the dogmata have once bitten, or in whom true knowledge hath made an impression, everything almost th"}, {"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. 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But that the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, I read"}, {"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_3881d3254abb", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_030: But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But is it so, as one remembers Carthage who hath seen it? No. For a happy life is not seen with the eye, because it is not a body. As we remember numbers then? No. For these, he that hath in his knowl"}, {"id": "card_n_03faa6ae44bf", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_12_xix: Cast away from thee opinion, and thou art safe.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Cast away from thee opinion, and thou art safe. And what is it that hinders thee from casting of it away? When thou art grieved at anything, hast thou forgotten that all things happen according to the"}, {"id": "card_n_6f3da3abfe46", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_054: To this is added another form of temptation more manifoldly dangerous.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "To this is added another form of temptation more manifoldly dangerous. For besides that concupiscence of the flesh which consisteth in the delight of all senses and pleasures, wherein its slaves, who "}, {"id": "card_n_454c9829a9a7", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §196: FAITH.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FAITH. This brings to my mind that of Moses, by which he describeth the beast that is clean. He is such a one that parteth the hoof and cheweth the cud; not that parteth the hoof only, or that cheweth"}, {"id": "card_n_40c27aaf21ae", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_01_02: There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledg...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "There is naturally in every man a desire to know, but what profiteth knowledge without the fear of God? Better of a surety is a lowly peasant who serveth God, than a proud philosopher who watcheth the"}, {"id": "card_n_8564d1ef7b71", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_43: “My Son, let not the fair and subtle sayings of men move thee.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "“My Son, let not the fair and subtle sayings of men move thee. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.(1) Give ear to My words, for they kindle the heart and enlighten the mind, they brin"}, {"id": "card_n_48e193d28539", "title": "Romans 10", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.\n2. For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.\n3. For being ignor"}, {"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"}, {"id": "card_n_f6567c3258b0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_041: O Lord my God, what a depth is that recess of Thy mysteries, and how far from...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O Lord my God, what a depth is that recess of Thy mysteries, and how far from it have the consequences of my transgressions cast me! Heal mine eyes, that I may share the joy of Thy light. Certainly, i"}, {"id": "card_n_69f4ee2fc440", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xx: As occasion shall require, either to thine own understanding, or to that of t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As occasion shall require, either to thine own understanding, or to that of the universe, or to his, whom thou hast now to do with, let thy refuge be with all speed. To thine own, that it resolve upon"}, {"id": "card_n_dab5ead8699d", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_05_013: My zeal for the writings of Manichaeus being thus blunted, and despairing yet...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "My zeal for the writings of Manichaeus being thus blunted, and despairing yet more of their other teachers, seeing that in divers things which perplexed me, he, so renowned among them, had so turned o"}, {"id": "card_n_9f1c1ac9e38b", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_031: Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, a...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Where then and when did I experience my happy life, that I should remember, and love, and long for it? Nor is it I alone, or some few besides, but we all would fain be happy; which, unless by some cer"}]}