{"query": "A parable — Doubt silence", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_e518ae8c8e4c", "title": "A parable — Doubt silence", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The psalmist cried: My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He cried it day and night, and there was no answer. He wrote the cry down anyway. Centuries later the Son of God said the same words from"}, {"id": "card_c_04072367124b", "title": "A parable — Silence better ↔ A parable — Speech silence", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Silence is sometimes the most honest contribution. (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; mi"}, {"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_f8186323a970", "title": "A parable — Speech silence", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. The proverb is dry. It does not say the fool became wise. It only says he was"}, {"id": "card_n_5b1b498f6ae0", "title": "A parable — Silence better", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man in the council never spoke first. When his turn came, he had heard everyone and the matter was clearer. Those who had spoken first had often spoken twice — once to argue, and once to retract. He"}, {"id": "card_src_word_beyond_doubt", "title": "beyond doubt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "beyond doubt: (adjective) too obvious to be doubted — syn: beyond doubt(p), indubitable · (adverb) in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted — syn: indubitably, beyond a doubt, beyond a sha"}, {"id": "card_src_word_beyond_a_doubt", "title": "beyond a doubt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "beyond a doubt: (adverb) in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted — syn: indubitably, beyond doubt, beyond a shadow of a doubt"}, {"id": "card_src_word_beyond_a_shadow_of_a_doubt", "title": "beyond a shadow of a doubt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "beyond a shadow of a doubt: (adverb) in a manner or to a degree that could not be doubted — syn: indubitably, beyond doubt, beyond a doubt"}, {"id": "card_n_a4f4879a436b", "title": "A parable — Doubt hidden", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man searched for the One who made the world, and could not see him. He concluded the One was not there. He had not yet considered that the made could not contain the maker — that any God you could s"}, {"id": "card_src_book_34198", "title": "The will to doubt — Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Lloyd", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The will to doubt, by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Lloyd. Subjects: Belief and doubt; Philosophy -- Introductions. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34198"}, {"id": "card_src_word_no_doubt", "title": "no doubt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "no doubt: (adverb) admittedly — syn: to be sure, without doubt"}, {"id": "card_src_word_without_doubt", "title": "without doubt", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "without doubt: (adverb) admittedly — syn: to be sure, no doubt"}, {"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"}]}