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1 Int | immediate situation. One may mark off significant developments
2 Int | him?)? And, secondly, how may we interpret God’s action
3 Int | has looked as deeply as may be into the mystery of creation,
4 Int, 1 | out of two souls, “But it may have been that I was afraid
5 Int, 1 | although this inept expression may be tempered somewhat by
6 Int, 1 | tempered somewhat by the “may have been” [forte] which
7 Int, 1 | shall not fail but that I may go on to be perfected. Pray
8 1, I | For he who knows thee not may invoke thee as another than
9 1, I | another than thou art. It may be that we should invoke
10 1, I | invoke thee in order that we may come to know thee. But “
11 1, V | shall be blotted out and I may embrace thee, my only good?
12 1, V | to me? Have mercy that I may speak. What am I to thee
13 1, V | salvation.”14 So speak that I may hear. Behold, the ears of
14 1, X | call upon thee, that they may call upon thee, and thou
15 1, XIII | blaming my own evil ways I may come to love thy holy ways.
16 1, XV | Lord, my King and my God, may all things useful that I
17 1, XVI | shore and roar: “Here words may be learned; here you can
18 2, I | still love them, but that I may love thee, O my God. For
19 2, II | belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he
20 2, II | are of the world, how he may please his wife.”44 I should
21 2, II | and dost kill us that we may not die apart from thee.
22 2, III | part of the human race who may chance to come upon these
23 2, III | I and all who read them may understand what depths there
24 3, II | willingly miserable, one may, nevertheless, be pleased
25 3, II | commiserate them. Some grief may then be justified, but none
26 3, VII | that was formerly lawful may become, after a time, unlawful -
27 3, VII | season, part, and person may differ. To the one they
28 3, VIII | law of any city or nation, may not be violated at the lawless
29 3, VIII | injury. Either of these may be done for reasons of revenge,
30 3, VIII | the traveler; else they may be done in order to avoid
31 3, VIII | because he is happy; or they may be done by a prosperous
32 3, VIII | equality he resents. They may even be done for the mere
33 3, IX | disapproved in man’s sight may be approved by thy testimony.
34 3, IX | time; and even though it may be contrary to the ordinance
35 4, III | blood and proud corruption, may regard himself as blameless,
36 4, VI | live as a half self. But it may have been that I was afraid
37 4, X | its part, so that the next may follow after it. Let my
38 4, X | were meant to go, that they may exist no longer. And they
39 4, XI | things pass away that others may come to be in their place.
40 4, XI | lowest level of unity102 may be made complete in all
41 4, XI | fly past so that others may follow them, and the whole
42 4, XII | First come down that you may climb up, climb up to God.
43 4, XII | souls you love that they may weep in the valley of tears,
44 5, I | soul praise thee, that it may love thee, and let it confess
45 5, I | mercies to thee, that it may praise thee. Thy whole creation
46 5, I | upon them. Thus our souls may climb out of their weariness
47 5, II | stumble against thee that they may be justly plagued, fleeing
48 5, III | their inquisitive skill they may number the stars and the
49 5, III | so that to this day they may be read and from them may
50 5, III | may be read and from them may be calculated in what year
51 5, IV | use of it - although he may not know how many feet high
52 5, IV | doubt that this faithful man may truly be better than the
53 5, V | ignorant, however perfectly he may have known these other things.
54 5, VI | vessels - both kinds of food may be served in either kind
55 6, V | that through them thy will may be believed in and that
56 6, XI | do not appear so now, and may be otherwise and honestly
57 6, XI | my claims, a governorship may be offered me, and a wife
58 6, I(177) | mental constructs, which may be internally coherent but
59 6, VI | whatever importance they may ascribe to it in the nature
60 6, VI | not - so that the inquirer may hear what, according to
61 6, IX | souls receive that they may be blessed, and that by
62 6, IX | they are renewed that they may be wise. But, that “in due
63 6, XIX | that those who are approved may be made manifest among the
64 6, XXI | to be cleansed, that he may grasp thee, who art ever
65 6, XXI | cannot see thee afar off may yet enter upon the road
66 6, XXI | thee. For although a man may “delight in the law of God
67 7, III | marriage so that the husband may not esteem her any less,
68 7, IX | mercy shine on me, that I may inquire and find an answer,
69 7, X | the truth that thy apostle may say to them: “You were formerly
70 7, X | convict them. For both wills may be bad: as when a man tries
71 7, X | done the whole united will may go forward on a single track
72 7, XI | members of yours, that they may be mortified. They tell
73 8, II | thy servants, my brethren, may say that I sinned in this,
74 8, IV | were formerly in darkness may now be alight in thee. If
75 8, VIII | of pantry and cellar, you may not care for water, but
76 8, XIII | shall read these confessions may also at thy altar remember
77 8, XIII | in a manner I know not. May they with pious affection
78 9, II | said with what profit I may confess to thee. I do not
79 9, III | thee, O Lord, so that men may also hear; for if I cannot
80 9, III | they are read and heard, may stir up the heart so that
81 9, IV | but of what I am), that I may not confess this before
82 9, V | a way of escape that we may be able to bear it. I would
83 9, XI | These are the things we may be said to have learned
84 9, XIII | them so that later on I may remember just as I understand
85 9, XIV | Whatever kind of analysis I may be able to make of these,
86 9, XVII | will pass beyond it, that I may come to thee, O lovely Light.
87 9, XVII | even beyond memory that I may reach Him who has differentiated
88 9, XX | will seek thee that my soul may live.340 For my body lives
89 9, XXI | striving for it that we may be happy. Is the memory
90 9, XXI | as we remember joy? It may be so, for I remember my
91 9, XXVIII | what he endures, though he may love to endure. Yet even
92 9, XXX | more, O Lord, that my soul may follow me to thee, wrenched
93 9, XXXI | precedence in order that I may want to do for her sake
94 9, XXXI | the pretense of health it may conceal its projects for
95 9, XXXI | wilt have mercy that it may be put far from me. For
96 9, XXXI | Strengthen me, that I too may be able. Give what thou
97 9, XXXII | better from having been worse may not also from having been
98 9, XXXIII | the ear the weaker minds may be stimulated to a devotional
99 9, XXXV | thoughts is now far from me, so may it always be farther and
100 9, XXXVI | no other view than that I may find in it a joy that is
101 9, XXXVI | eagerly picking them up, we may be caught unawares and split
102 9, XXXVI | men like himself, that he may have them as his own, not
103 9, XXXVII | sought for in order that they may minister to one of these
104 9, XXXVII | despises them so that they may be cast aside and it may
105 9, XXXVII | may be cast aside and it may prove itself.~But if we
106 9, XXXVII | myself to me also, that I may confess to my brethren,
107 9, XXXVIII | it is reproved. For a man may often glory vainly in the
108 9, XL | whom my scattered members may be gathered together and
109 9, XLIII | my care on thee, that I may live and “behold wondrous
110 10, I | instead, that through them I may stir up my own love and
111 10, I | toward thee, so that all may say, “Great is the Lord
112 10, I | already begun; and that we may cease to be wretched in
113 10, II | tongue - and give me what I may in turn offer back to thee.
114 10, II | secret things of thy Word may be opened to me when I knock.
115 10, V | within his mind what he may do with the things before
116 10, V | he had an interpreter, he may communicate from mind to
117 10, V | been done, that the mind may consult with the Truth which
118 10, XI | it and fix it so that it may come to rest for a little;
119 10, XI | which nothing abides, they may see that they are incommensurable?
120 10, XI | the heart of man that it may stand still and see how
121 10, XIII | that all separate moments may come to pass. All thy years
122 10, XV | point, this alone is what we may call time present. But this
123 10, XV | therefore, is that time which we may call “long”? Is it future?
124 10, XV | will not be long, for what may be long is not yet. It will
125 10, XV | there can be something that may be long. But in that case,
126 10, XVI | longer or shorter this time may be than that time. And we
127 10, XVIII | time future.~24. Whatever may be the manner of this secret
128 10, XVIII | which is in time future may be predicted.~Future events,
129 10, XXII | for this I live: that I may contemplate the joys of
130 10, XXIV | long but not how long it may be. This is because when
131 10, XXVI | is pronounced slowly, it may take up more time than a
132 10, XXVI | to me. The extendedness may be of the mind itself. For
133 10, XXVII | longer. How, therefore, may it be measured? And yet
134 10, XXVIII | this that what is present may proceed to become absent.
135 10, XXIX | means. Thus through him I may lay hold upon him in whom
136 10, XXIX | also laid hold upon; and I may be gathered up from my old
137 10, XXIX | heavenly calling,451 where I may hear the sound of thy praise
138 10, XXXI | me? Heal my eyes, that I may enjoy thy light. Surely,
139 11, III(459)| possible that Augustine may have had the sensibilities
140 11, III(459)| mind - for many of them may have not known Jerome's
141 11, IV | shining. Therefore, why may I not consider the formlessness
142 11, V | such things to itself, it may be attempting either to
143 11, VI(462) | Augustine may not have known the Platonic
144 11, XI | seeks after this: that it may dwell in thy house all the
145 11, XI | thy sight, is clear to me; may it become clearer and clearer
146 11, XI | thee, and in this light may I abide soberly under thy
147 11, XII | mutable but not changed - it may fully enjoy thy eternity
148 11, XII | so that by degrees they may be led forward who cannot
149 11, XII | them the changes of time may take place through the ordered
150 11, XV | builder, I have hoped that I may be brought back to you.”479~
151 11, XVII | and “The darkened abyss,” may not inappropriately be understood
152 11, XVIII | since many different things may be understood from these
153 11, XVIII | these words, all of which may be true - what harm would
154 11, XXI | entity, under which term may be included this corporeal
155 11, XXII | Truth instructs us, why may we not interpret that unformed
156 11, XXIII | two sorts of disagreements may arise when anything is related
157 11, XXIV | thee that by thy mercy I may pay my vow to thee. Now,
158 11, XXV | balm into my heart that I may patiently bear with people
159 11, XXVII | truth, from which each one may draw out for himself that
160 11, XXVII | and send thy angel who may restore it to its nest,
161 11, XXVII | it to its nest, that it may live until it can fly.~
162 11, XXIX | sound; and an unformed thing may exist, but a thing that
163 11, XXIX | formed in order that it may be a tune. This is why,
164 11, XXIX | singer, so that from it he may form a tune. Nor is the
165 11, XXIX | formed in order that it may become a sound, but the
166 11, XXIX | formed in order that it may become a tune.~From this
167 11, XXX | itself bring concord, and may our God have mercy on us
168 11, XXX | mercy on us all, that we may use the law rightly to the
169 11, XXXII | Yet if I do not succeed, may it be that I shall say at
170 12, I | my God. It is not that I may serve thee as if thou wert
171 12, I | Instead, it is that I may serve and worship thee to
172 12, I | worship thee to the end that I may have my well-being from
173 12, VII | unto thee for us, that we may come to the surpassing knowledge
174 12, VII | release from anxiety - that we may lift our hearts to thee
175 12, VIII | measure my love so that I may come to know how much there
176 12, XI | mention them in order that men may exercise their minds and
177 12, XIII | that “in understanding you may become perfect.”544 “O foolish
178 12, XVII | everything, although they may fluctuate within an innumerable
179 12, XVII | spring, so that “the earth” may bring forth her fruit and -
180 12, XVII | commanding it - our souls may bud forth in works of mercy
181 12, XVIII | makest it plain to us how we may distinguish between things
182 12, XVIII | manifest throughout the world - may shed light upon the earth,
183 12, XVIII | light upon the earth, and may divide between the day and
184 12, XVIII | between the day and night, and may be for the signs of the
185 12, XVIII | tongues - and all these gifts may be compared to “the stars.”
186 12, XVIII | firmament” - in order that we may be able to view all things
187 12, XIX | so that “the dry land” may appear. “Learn to do well,
188 12, XIX | widow,”596 that the earth may bring forth the green herb
189 12, XIX | the Lord”597 - that there may be lights in the firmament
190 12, XIX | of heaven and that they may shine upon the earth.~There
191 12, XIX | that “the dry land” may appear and bring forth the
192 12, XIX | that for you also there may be lights in the firmament
193 12, XIX | have forsaken all that you may follow the Lord: follow
194 12, XIX | firmament, that the heavens may declare his glory, dividing
195 12, XX | cognition a single thing may be figured and signified
196 12, XXI | works in them, so that they may bring forth “a living soul”
197 12, XXI | world, so that their soul may live to thee. This soul
198 12, XXI | live615 and “the earth” may bring forth “the living
199 12, XXI | called knowledge.617 Thus may the wild beast be tamed,
200 12, XXI | the end that “the earth” may bring forth a “living soul”
201 12, XXI | that the eternal nature may “be clearly seen, understood
202 12, XXII | likeness,”622 so that then we may be able to prove what thy
203 12, XXII | of your minds, that you may prove what is the good and
204 12, XXIII | thy eyes, O God, and which may not, as yet, be made manifest
205 12, XXIII | external works, so that we may know them by their fruits;
206 12, XXIII | cannot know which of them may later on come into the sweetness
207 12, XXIII | grace, and which of them may continue in the perpetual
208 12, XXIII | thee, so that the people may answer, “Amen.”630 The reason
209 12, XXIV | bless men in order that they may be “fruitful and multiply,
210 12, XXIV | making a sign to us that we may understand something [allegorically]?
211 12, XXIV | only one way in the mind may be expressed in many different
212 12, XXIV | expression through the body may be understood in the mind
213 12, XXIV | Thus a single category may include many things, and
214 12, XXVI | God and not his own belly may rejoice in them, and I plainly
215 12, XXVII | Fishes and great whales” - may be helped in being gained [
216 12, XXXI | and just as rightly it may be said to those who perceive
217 12, XXXI | is good - that truly he may be loved in what he hath
218 12, XXXIII | works praise thee, that we may love thee; and let us love
219 12, XXXIII | love thee that thy works may praise thee - those works
220 12, XXXIV | thy Spirit, by which we may see them so and love thee
221 12, XXXV | hast given them to us - we may find our rest in thee in
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