{"query": "What the Quiet Reveals", "count": 20, "results": [{"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_7e7900821c44", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_li: He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. 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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_2773c91c04b3", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_02_03: First keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker t...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "First keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker towards others. A peaceable man doth more good than a well-learned. A passionate man turneth even good into evil and easily "}, {"id": "card_n_32c01ea5fa4d", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_x: This, what is it in itself, and by itself, according to its proper constitution?", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This, what is it in itself, and by itself, according to its proper constitution? What is the substance of it? What is the matter, or proper use? What is the form or efficient cause? 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And here I "}, {"id": "card_n_ca2aede43330", "title": "Easton: Medeba", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Waters of quiet, an ancient Moabite town (Num. 21:30). It was assigned to the tribe of Reuben (Josh. 13:16). Here was fought the great battle in which Joab defeated the Ammonites and their allies (1 C"}, {"id": "card_n_8087d5daa7d0", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_10_003: What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What then have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions--as if they could heal all my infirmities--a race, curious to know the lives of others, slothful to amend their own? 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