{"query": "The Victory Is Already Past Tense", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_cd9e76f415e0", "title": "The Victory Is Already Past Tense", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.\"\n\nJesus did not say the trouble would stop. He said He had already handled what the trouble could ultimately d"}, {"id": "card_n_ccbf2a23f514", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_018: And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And yet we say, \"a long time\" and \"a short time\"; still, only of time past or to come. A long time past (for example) we call an hundred years since; and a long time to come, an hundred years hence. B"}, {"id": "card_n_2f98a5c4f9d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_026: What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What now is clear and plain is, that neither things to come nor past are. Nor is it properly said, \"there be three times, past, present, and to come\": yet perchance it might be properly said, \"there b"}, {"id": "card_n_93a415156425", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_023: Permit me, Lord, to seek further.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Permit me, Lord, to seek further. O my hope, let not my purpose be confounded. For if times past and to come be, I would know where they be. Which yet if I cannot, yet I know, wherever they be, they a"}, {"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_cf582aac7b6d", "title": "The Invitation Requires Nothing First", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nThe disciples had just worked through the night without catching a thing. Then, at Jesus' word, the net filled. They hauled the catch ashore — and found that he "}, {"id": "card_n_9adf884ca117", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_020: See how the present time, which alone we found could be called long, is abrid...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "See how the present time, which alone we found could be called long, is abridged to the length scarce of one day. But let us examine that also; because neither is one day present as a whole. For it is"}, {"id": "card_n_2b5e67eb1e94", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_021: The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same mann...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The same memory contains also the affections of my mind, not in the same manner that my mind itself contains them, when it feels them; but far otherwise, according to a power of its own. For without r"}, {"id": "card_n_817442fc6789", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_019: Let us see then, thou soul of man, whether present time can be long: for to t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Let us see then, thou soul of man, whether present time can be long: for to thee it is given to feel and to measure length of time. What wilt thou answer me? Are an hundred years, when present, a long"}, {"id": "card_n_c43704840de6", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_013: Who speak thus, do not yet understand Thee, O Wisdom of God, Light of souls, ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Who speak thus, do not yet understand Thee, O Wisdom of God, Light of souls, understand not yet how the things be made, which by Thee, and in Thee are made: yet they strive to comprehend things eterna"}, {"id": "card_n_4e743297cf2f", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_017: At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "At no time then hadst Thou not made any thing, because time itself Thou madest. And no times are coeternal with Thee, because Thou abidest; but if they abode, they should not be times. For what is tim"}, {"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_0de2ff4d9799", "title": "O God, Our Help in Ages Past", "shelf": "hymns", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "O God, our help in ages past,\nOur hope for years to come,\nOur shelter from the stormy blast,\nAnd our eternal home.\n\nUnder the shadow of Thy throne\nStill may we dwell secure;\nSufficient is Thine arm al"}, {"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_e22d2aa57c61", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_02_xii: If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, y...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "If thou shouldst live three thousand, or as many as ten thousands of years, yet remember this, that man can part with no life properly, save with that little part of life, which he now lives: and that"}, {"id": "card_n_4d809fef42c2", "title": "The Fire Was Already Lit", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine.\n\nWhen the disciples hauled their heavy catch to shore, exhausted and waterlogged, they found that Jesus had not waited for them to provide. A charcoal fire was bu"}, {"id": "card_n_cdd8c726c6f4", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_03_x: Use thine opinative faculty with all honour and respect, for in her indeed is...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Use thine opinative faculty with all honour and respect, for in her indeed is all: that thy opinion do not beget in thy understanding anything contrary to either nature, or the proper constitution of "}, {"id": "card_n_30a3a7f40aff", "title": "Boethius, Consolation §boe_05_06: 'Since, then, as we lately proved, everything that is known is cognized not i...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "'Since, then, as we lately proved, everything that is known is cognized not in accordance with its own nature, but in accordance with the nature of the faculty that comprehends it, let us now contempl"}, {"id": "card_n_5fdb4249401c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_024: Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Which way soever then this secret fore-perceiving of things to come be; that only can be seen, which is. But what now is, is not future, but present. When then things to come are said to be seen, it i"}, {"id": "card_n_0ea9147bbee2", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_11_038: I am about to repeat a Psalm that I know.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I am about to repeat a Psalm that I know. Before I begin, my expectation is extended over the whole; but when I have begun, how much soever of it I shall separate off into the past, is extended along "}]}