{"query": "The counter-pattern — when persecution grows what force cann", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_f69fb7c82462", "title": "The counter-pattern — when persecution grows what force cannot", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are universal patterns — natural law among them: the same moral precepts recur\nacross Babylonian, Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, and Hebrew sources (C.S. Lewis catalogued them as\n'the Tao'; Paul call"}, {"id": "card_n_de918342534c", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_024: What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What, when I name forgetfulness, and withal recognise what I name? whence should I recognise it, did I not remember it? I speak not of the sound of the name, but of the thing which it signifies: which"}, {"id": "card_n_b026825cd2d9", "title": "Easton: Miracle", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God, operating without the use of means capable of being discerned by the senses, and designed to authent"}, {"id": "card_c_9a26b4be2e33", "title": "Death as the mechanism of growth — the grain of wheat", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The counter-pattern is the recycling/resurrection pattern in history: what dies bears much fruit."}, {"id": "card_n_2cac7e4c49d7", "title": "Easton: Persecution", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The first great persecution for religious opinion of which we have any record was that which broke out against the worshippers of God among the Jews in the days of Ahab, when that king, at the instiga"}, {"id": "card_n_339ec3907a77", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_025: Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soi...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Lord, I, truly, toil therein, yea and toil in myself; I am become a heavy soil requiring over much sweat of the brow. 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For the confessions of my past sins, which Thou hast forgiven and covered, that Thou mightest bless me in Thee, "}, {"id": "card_n_0f7b2a40aed3", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_09_xxxii: What are their minds and understandings; and what the things that they apply ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "What are their minds and understandings; and what the things that they apply themselves unto: what do they love, and what do they hate for? Fancy to thyself the estate of their souls openly to be seen"}, {"id": "card_n_6bd1867c8704", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_026: Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Great is the power of memory, a fearful thing, O my God, a deep and boundless manifoldness; and this thing is the mind, and this am I myself. What am I then, O my God? What nature am I? 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That is, spend"}, {"id": "card_n_8d4362c182ce", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_005: But for what fruit would they hear this?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "But for what fruit would they hear this? Do they desire to joy with me, when they hear how near, by Thy gift, I approach unto Thee? and to pray for me, when they shall hear how much I am held back by "}]}