{"query": "A parable — Fear failure", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_04502b1ebf95", "title": "A parable — Fear failure", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A servant was given one talent and feared losing it, so he buried it in the ground. When the master returned, the talent was safe — exactly as it had been given. The master called him wicked, not for "}, {"id": "card_src_book_4611", "title": "Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear — Arthur Christopher Benson", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear, by Arthur Christopher Benson. Subjects: Fear. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4611"}, {"id": "card_n_5cc788344ecd", "title": "A parable — Fear death", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A man feared the sea his whole life, for he could not see the bottom. One day a child waded out, laughed, and waded back. The depth had not changed. Only the child trusted the One who made the water.\n"}, {"id": "card_n_653e4ac3ff00", "title": "A parable — Fear of god", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "A young man asked an elder, 'Where does wisdom begin?' The elder said, 'At the door of the only one larger than your question.' The young man went to that door and knelt. He did not ask first; he wait"}, {"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_c_90472e472ae6", "title": "A parable — Fear failure ↔ The Servant Who Buried the Talent", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "A servant was given one talent and feared losing it, so he buried it in the ground. When the master returned, the talent was safe... 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(Angelo) Mosso", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Fear, by A. (Angelo) Mosso. Subjects: Mind and body; Fear; Brain. Read the full text (public domain): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59901"}, {"id": "card_n_18b70eabee39", "title": "David the Shepherd-King", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anointed while still in the field with the sheep; refuses Sauls armor for the smooth stones he knows; spares Saul twice in the caves; falls grievously with Bathsheba and Uriah; receives Nathans parabl"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_isaiah_41_10", "title": "Matthew Henry on Isaiah 41:10", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Isaiah 41:10 — The scope of these verses is to silence the fears, and encourage the faith, of the servants of God in their distresses. 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