{"query": "A parable — Carnot", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_9c78781d718f", "title": "A parable — Carnot", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "An engineer believed he could build a machine that took less and gave more. He built and rebuilt for many years. The machine he made was very good, but it could never give back more than was given. He"}, {"id": "card_src_word_carnot", "title": "carnot", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "carnot: (noun) French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832) — syn: Sadi Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot"}, {"id": "card_src_word_sadi_carnot", "title": "sadi carnot", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "sadi carnot: (noun) French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832) — syn: Carnot, Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot"}, {"id": "card_src_word_nicolas_leonard_sadi_carnot", "title": "nicolas leonard sadi carnot", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "nicolas leonard sadi carnot: (noun) French physicist who founded thermodynamics (1796-1832) — syn: Carnot, Sadi Carnot"}, {"id": "card_src_place_2387495", "title": "Carnot", "shelf": "geography", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Carnot: a place in CF, 19 at 4.943, 15.877, population 129,032. Feature PPLA, timezone Africa/Bangui."}, {"id": "card_src_place_7258082", "title": "Carnot-Moon", "shelf": "geography", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Carnot-Moon: a place in US, PA at 40.519, -80.217, population 11,372. Feature PPL, timezone America/New_York."}, {"id": "card_n_90ab16a347bd", "title": "A parable — Suffering grief", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "When his friend died, the Lord did not say, 'do not mourn, for I will raise him.' He wept first. He raised him afterward. The tears were not a failure of faith — they were faith making room for love.\n"}, {"id": "card_n_effe4bf87816", "title": "A parable — Envy", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man kept a ledger of his neighbor's blessings. The ledger grew thick. His neighbor's house, his neighbor's wife, his neighbor's ox, his neighbor's days. He carried the ledger everywhere. He could no"}, {"id": "card_n_7fc1166cbd90", "title": "A parable — Suffering betrayal", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist wrote: it was not an enemy who reproached me — I could have borne that. It was you, my equal, my companion. The wound from a friend's hand goes deeper than the sword's, because the friend"}, {"id": "card_n_c98e4733373b", "title": "A parable — Tongue", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth. The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity, set on fire of hell. One small spark in a dry forest in summer. The forest was a hundred years growing. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_e586205d665c", "title": "A parable — Least privilege", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A steward of a great house carried every key on his belt. A guest borrowed one key for one room, and when he was found in another room, the steward had no defense, for every door had been open. A wise"}, {"id": "card_n_4543b0454ea6", "title": "A parable — Envy neighbor", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A woman counted her neighbor's blessings each morning and her own each evening. By month's end she could recite her neighbor's list and had forgotten her own. The garden she walked through every day h"}, {"id": "card_n_df07989eae54", "title": "A parable — Phishing", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A sheep heard the shepherd's voice calling at the gate, and ran to open it. But the voice was a wolf in the shepherd's coat. None of the other sheep had seen the shepherd come; none had been asked. Th"}, {"id": "card_n_ebd9f46f16cd", "title": "A parable — Addiction scroll", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man drew water from a well that had no bottom. The bucket was light, and came up empty every time. He kept drawing because the bucket was light. Years passed. He had moved his arm a hundred thousand"}, {"id": "card_c_dc3401b5f23e", "title": "A parable — Strawman ↔ A parable — Phishing", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "(A Narrow Highway original teaching parable — not a parable of Jesus; a made story that carries a true edge.)  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_17ba1fbceeda", "title": "A parable — Unconformity", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A scribe wrote the history of a kingdom from the stones in its walls. He thought he had written all of it. But beneath the wall, between two layers of stone, was a missing age — a famine, a fault, a s"}, {"id": "card_n_47bb4f1e56b0", "title": "A parable — Fear future", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man walked toward a forest and saw, miles ahead, that the trees were dark. He carried for hours the weight of what he would find there — until the path turned, and the forest was not on his road at "}, {"id": "card_n_de582c7ac9a4", "title": "A parable — Pride praise b", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man was praised for his work, and walked taller because of it. By evening he had grown to fit the praise. By morning the praise had moved to another, and he was small again. The praise had not added"}, {"id": "card_n_e20007f8e81a", "title": "A parable — Isostasy", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A mountain stood tall above the plain, and the men of the plain envied it. They did not see that beneath the mountain, hidden in the earth, were roots seven times its height. When they tried to be a m"}, {"id": "card_n_23ec117624fc", "title": "A parable — Loaded question", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man asked his neighbor: 'When did you stop cheating your workers?' His neighbor opened his mouth to answer, then closed it. To answer 'yesterday' was to confess. To answer 'never' was to confess dif"}]}