{"query": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_3df9cadb44a4", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nSaturdays carry a peculiar pull — errands accumulate, the week's unfinished business presses in, and the mind races toward tomorrow before today has properly arriv"}, {"id": "card_c_21fc13edbf77", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens ↔ The Knowing That Comes Through Stillness", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "But notice what stillness is for... It is the posture that makes a particular kind of knowing possible.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_ca88e5d3f673", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens ↔ The Stillness Is the Instruction", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "It is not an end in itself, not a technique for managing stress. It is the posture that makes a particular kind of knowing possible.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_c_4cd8e3f6c927", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens ↔ What the Quiet Reveals", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The stillness is not passive resignation; it is active clearing — removing your own voice long enough to hear one that was speaking all along.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_ea5725d67984", "title": "The Stillness Is the Instruction", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThe command is strange by any practical measure. When the world presses in — when noise accumulates and demands multiply — the expected counsel is to act faster, p"}, {"id": "card_c_4716db3f5332", "title": "The Knowledge That Stillness Opens ↔ Psalm 46 — God Is Our Refuge", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_src_comm_colossians_1_9", "title": "Matthew Henry on Colossians 1:9", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Colossians 1:9 — The apostle proceeds in these verses to pray for them. He heard that they were good, and he prayed that they might be better. He was constant in this prayer: We do not cease to pra"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_18_15", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 18:15", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 18:15 — Note, 1. Those that are prudent will seek knowledge, and apply their ear and heart to the pursuit of it, their ear to attend to the means of knowledge and their heart to mix faith "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_22_12", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:12", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 22:12 — Here is, 1. The special care God takes to preserve knowledge, that is, to keep up religion in the world by keeping up among men the knowledge of himself and of good and evil, notwi"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_hosea_4_6", "title": "Matthew Henry on Hosea 4:6", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Hosea 4:6 — God is here proceeding in his controversy both with the priests and with the people. The people were as those that strove with the priests (Hos 4:4) when they had priests that did their"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_1_7", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:7", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 1:7 — Solomon, having undertaken to teach a young man knowledge and discretion, here lays down two general rules to be observed in order thereunto, and those are, to fear God and honour hi"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_19_2", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:2", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 19:2 — Two things are here declared to be of bad consequence: - 1. Ignorance: To be without the knowledge of the soul is not good, so some read it. Know we not our own selves, our own hear"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_romans_1_19", "title": "Matthew Henry on Romans 1:19", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Romans 1:19 — In this last part of the chapter the apostle applies what he had said particularly to the Gentile world, in which we may observe,\nI. The means and helps they had to come to the knowle"}, {"id": "card_n_8923db647398", "title": "Pilgrim's Progress §200: FAITH.", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "FAITH. No, not I; I am only for setting things right. But what is the second thing whereby you would prove a discovery of a work of grace in the heart? TALK. Great knowledge of gospel mysteries. FAITH"}, {"id": "card_n_da61b7cf43cd", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_10_xxxiv: As he that is bitten by a mad dog, is afraid of everything almost that he see...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As he that is bitten by a mad dog, is afraid of everything almost that he seeth: so unto him, whom the dogmata have once bitten, or in whom true knowledge hath made an impression, everything almost th"}, {"id": "card_n_a44b6bc5aade", "title": "The Knowing That Comes Through Stillness", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "\"Be still, and know that I am God.\"\n\nThere is a particular kind of knowing that cannot be forced or studied into existence. The psalmist does not say \"work harder and know\" or \"speak more and know.\" H"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_1_corinthians_8_7", "title": "Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 8:7", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On 1 Corinthians 8:7 — The apostle, having granted, and indeed confirmed, the opinion of some among the Corinthians, that idols were nothing, proceeds now to show them that their inference from this a"}, {"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_src_comm_james_3_13", "title": "Matthew Henry on James 3:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On James 3:13 — As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the "}, {"id": "card_src_comm_proverbs_13_16", "title": "Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:16", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Proverbs 13:16 — Note, 1. It is wisdom to be cautious. Every prudent discreet man does all with knowledge (considering with himself and consulting with others), acts with deliberation and is upon t"}]}