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1 Pref, 2 | Rest, indeed!" I would say. "I need no rest; what I
2 Pref, 2 | the devil, the devil!" we say, when we might be saying "
3 Pref, 2 | he might laugh at me and say: "What a Saint Paul she
4 Pref, 2 | the least mean what they say -- e.g., "and" for "but",
5 Pref, 2 | might put it" or "as they say". It would not be hard to
6 Pref, 2 | considered, as one might say, "all right".29~
7 Pref, 2 | done nothing. All I can say is that I have done my best.~
8 Pref, 3 | but never allowing her to say in English anything that
9 Pref, 3 | anything that she does not say in Spanish. Her mind was
10 Intr, 0 | confessors -- that is to say, under obedience. It seemed
11 Intr, 0 | any good thing that I may say, if the Lord gives me grace
12 Intr, 0 | the Lord gives me grace to say it, in which case it will
13 Intr, 0 | Needless to say, a great many copies of
14 Intr, 0 | death, and, needless to say, too, these copies contained
15 Unic, 1 | my mother took to make us say our prayers and to lead
16 Unic, 1 | own children. He used to say that it caused him intolerable
17 Unic, 1 | grieves me, Lord, even to say this, since I know that
18 Unic, 3 | better for it. I began to say a great many vocal prayers
19 Unic, 4 | great aridities, due, as I say, to my being unable to meditate.
20 Unic, 5 | far from the truth when I say "a thousand", though I may
21 Unic, 6 | that I must not wish or say anything about anyone which
22 Unic, 6 | believe me will put what I say to the test, and he will
23 Unic, 6 | through Thy mercy I might say with Saint Paul, though
24 Unic, 7 | prayers that I was bound to say; and not to practise mental
25 Unic, 7 | This seems to me, as I say, a great pity; for, when
26 Unic, 7 | considered, as one might say, "all right". To me, in
27 Unic, 7 | opportunity if we want one. I say always; for, though there
28 Unic, 7 | serve Him through me. I say this in order to show how
29 Unic, 7 | seemed to me, as one might say, both in his soul and in
30 Unic, 7 | very learned man, used to say that he had not the least
31 Unic, 7 | blessings. I should not dare to say this if I had not had a
32 Unic, 7 | As regards myself, I can say that, if the Lord had not
33 Unic, 8 | courage to practise prayer. I say courage, because I know
34 Unic, 8 | gone smoothly, as I shall say later.~
35 Unic, 8 | dare to speak of it. I can say what I know by experience --
36 Unic, 8 | myself pray at all. (People say that I have little courage,
37 Unic, 8 | shall have a great deal to say about these consolations
38 Unic, 9 | great labour -- that is to say, during these latter years,
39 Unic, 9 | benefit to me; for, as I say, especially after those
40 Unic, 9 | wholly abandon, but, as I say, God kept on helping me
41 Unic, 10 | these tears, which, as I say, we can cause to flow almost
42 Unic, 10 | and literal truth when I say that, as far as I understand
43 Unic, 10 | applicable to what I shall say from now onwards; if this
44 Unic, 10 | any good thing that I may say, if the Lord gives me grace
45 Unic, 10 | the Lord gives me grace to say it, in which case it will
46 Unic, 10 | memory of my own. If, then, I say any good thing, it will
47 Unic, 10 | good purpose, that I should say it, while whatever is bad
48 Unic, 10 | well knows that, as I shall say later, I have always tried
49 Unic, 10 | you have permitted me to say here.~
50 Unic, 11 | again, and wrest it, as they say, out of His very hands,
51 Unic, 11 | handfuls of it, as one might say, and yet we want to reserve
52 Unic, 11 | till he achieves victory. I say "courage" because of the
53 Unic, 11 | To say something, then, of the
54 Unic, 11 | later with what I began to say about mystical theology,
55 Unic, 11 | Beginners in prayer, we may say, are those who draw up the
56 Unic, 11 | service should not be lost, to say nothing of the gain which
57 Unic, 11 | the well. What, then, as I say, will the gardener do here?
58 Unic, 11 | carefully noted -- and I say this because I know it by
59 Unic, 11 | this and I know that what I say is true, for I have observed
60 Unic, 11 | soul along with us, so to say, but lead it gently, so
61 Unic, 11 | matters not how often I say this, for it is of great
62 Unic, 12 | become spiritual, as I shall say later.~
63 Unic, 12 | When I say that people should not try
64 Unic, 12 | for that purpose. What I say we must not do is to presume
65 Unic, 12 | quiet, is foolishness. And I say once more that, although
66 Unic, 12 | amazes me. I can truthfully say this: though I used to talk
67 Unic, 12 | ashamed at being able to say that this is the truth --,
68 Unic, 13 | Rest, indeed!" I would say. "I need no rest; what I
69 Unic, 13 | of Sunday -- that is to say, a period of rest from their
70 Unic, 13 | of the Passion -- let us say upon the binding of the
71 Unic, 13 | I say "for all of us," but there
72 Unic, 13 | service to us. I do not say this without proof and I
73 Unic, 13 | who are pampered, as they say -- and live just as we like,
74 Unic, 13 | in what I have tried to say; but Your Reverence will
75 Unic, 14 | seems beside the point to say this, as we know that God
76 Unic, 14 | particular help (as they say) with its own eyes; and
77 Unic, 14 | gibberish, as one might say, however many years I may
78 Unic, 14 | tell how I have managed to say it at all. This often happens
79 Unic, 14 | comparison with what I shall say about my life hereafter),
80 Unic, 14 | Lord and my Good! I cannot say this without tears and great
81 Unic, 15 | to these souls I do not say that they will not offend
82 Unic, 15 | great fire which (as I shall say in due course) sends forth
83 Unic, 15 | much greater than I can say. I am very sorry for this,
84 Unic, 15 | this and with all humility say: "Lord, what can I do here?
85 Unic, 16 | reached this point, was to say very little about it, or
86 Unic, 16 | formalities? I do not think what I say is in the least exaggerated;
87 Unic, 16 | are anxious to help him. I say "secretly", because it is
88 Unic, 16 | gives little heat: I do not say that their flame is as great
89 Unic, 16 | unimportant. Provided we say what is true and maintain
90 Unic, 16 | one as the other. I do not say I am that kind of person,
91 Unic, 17 | seasons, very often indeed (I say this now so that Your Reverence
92 Unic, 17 | like these. "My God," I say to Him sometimes, "when
93 Unic, 17 | As I say, it happens at times --
94 Unic, 17 | disturbing it; but, when I say "unable to do harm", I mean
95 Unic, 17 | make use of it, for, as I say, I am often tormented in
96 Unic, 17 | allows us to enjoy Rachel. I say that it is a slave because,
97 Unic, 18 | teach me words in which to say something about the fourth
98 Unic, 18 | nothing more that I can say of it.~
99 Unic, 18 | loved us that we can truly say that Thou hast communication
100 Unic, 18 | special grace, though, as I say, both may be, or may appear
101 Unic, 18 | sublime a blessing. I shall say nothing of which I have
102 Unic, 18 | to me more impossible to say anything about it than to
103 Unic, 18 | Majesty seems to be pleased to say what I have neither the
104 Unic, 18 | whole truth; and thus, if I say anything good, the teaching
105 Unic, 18 | evil -- myself. And so I say, if there are any persons (
106 Unic, 18 | estimate, so I will merely say that it is never very long
107 Unic, 18 | completely lost -- is, as I say, of brief duration, although
108 Unic, 18 | is so obscure. I can only say that the soul feels close
109 Unic, 18 | understanding, because, as I say, it does not understand
110 Unic, 18 | believe that, for, as I say, He seemed to me to be really
111 Unic, 18(145)| n and Mar'a de San Josˇ say that P. Barr-n is meant.~
112 Unic, 19 | should be discouraged and say: "If I am going to fall
113 Unic, 19 | and in this respect, as I say, I never harboured a doubt.
114 Unic, 19 | certain other things, I will say nothing about it here, for
115 Unic, 19 | of what I still have to say. May it please the Lord
116 Unic, 19 | I will even venture to say that the only thing they
117 Unic, 19 | about itself; and, as I say, it runs into many dangers,
118 Unic, 19 | household, and who, as they say, have eaten of His bread.
119 Unic, 20 | the soul, just (we might say) as the clouds gather up
120 Unic, 20 | describe, but I think I can say it is somewhat different --
121 Unic, 20 | possibly do so: still, I will say something about it if I
122 Unic, 20 | desert, it can, I think, say literally, as the Royal
123 Unic, 20 | to the world.155 I do not say that this is true of me --
124 Unic, 20 | illnesses, and I think I might say that this particular peril
125 Unic, 20 | if I am correct in what I say, or if I am expressing it
126 Unic, 20 | describe later: I do not say for all of them at once,
127 Unic, 20 | a long way off. I do not say that he can hear and understand
128 Unic, 20 | understand this, as I shall say later. Perhaps I do not
129 Unic, 20 | gift, and sometimes, as I say, the Lord is pleased that
130 Unic, 20(161)| their affections, we may say, are less than nothing. . . .
131 Unic, 20 | which will never allow it to say anything good of itself
132 Unic, 21 | and consuming impulses to say this to persons in authority.
133 Unic, 21 | But, believe me, I should say it better in the very presence
134 Unic, 21 | doing nothing, because, as I say, it sees clearly that nothing
135 Unic, 21 | desires coupled with works. I say "with works" because there
136 Unic, 21 | in mine -- and I cannot say more than that, for I had
137 Unic, 21 | trampled beneath its feet. They say that discretion demands
138 Unic, 22 | one thing that I want to say, if Your Reverence thinks
139 Unic, 22 | written about prayer which say that, although of itself
140 Unic, 22 | of the Divinity. For they say that anything else, even
141 Unic, 22 | nothing in it, but what I say I have observed in my own
142 Unic, 22 | losing itself, in order, as I say, the better to gain itself.
143 Unic, 22 | Humanity, it is that, I say, which seems to me not to
144 Unic, 23(182)| hard) thing." As we might say in conversation: "A little
145 Unic, 23 | pleasant and gracious, not to say upright and holy, that it
146 Unic, 23 | for this cleric who, as I say, was such a servant of God
147 Unic, 23 | not yet fledged, as they say, is to begin to make progress
148 Unic, 23 | will benefit many souls, I say this here, for my whole
149 Unic, 23 | experienced many such, as I shall say later: it may seem unimportant
150 Unic, 23 | least from whatever he might say, because if I had no one
151 Unic, 23 | of Jesus, although, as I say, I have followed them imperfectly.
152 Unic, 25 | at the first word, as I say, it is completely changed.
153 Unic, 25 | received this favour, and to say it has understood something
154 Unic, 25 | himself might equally well say that he heard it with his
155 Unic, 25 | tortures me, as I shall say later, it is of such a nature
156 Unic, 25 | I mean what I say when I describe them as
157 Unic, 25 | find itself stopping to say "If God says this to me,
158 Unic, 25 | tempting it. To stop and say this is clearly wrong; but
159 Unic, 25 | in conversation. He would say what He pleased to me and
160 Unic, 25 | to be still, and I would say to myself: "Who is this,
161 Unic, 25 | see the devils, as I shall say later, I have hardly ever
162 Unic, 25 | the devil, the devil we say, when we might be saying "
163 Unic, 26 | most evident, which, as I say, cannot be hidden.~
164 Unic, 26 | learned, but if we do what I say we cannot run into danger
165 Unic, 26 | spirit, to keep silence and say nothing about them to anyone,
166 Unic, 26 | the help of God, I shall say more about some of these
167 Unic, 27 | explain it better. For, if I say that I do not see Him with
168 Unic, 27 | a suitable comparison to say that it is as if a person
169 Unic, 27 | the effects which, as I say, He produces in the soul,
170 Unic, 27 | unless I am commanded to say more I propose to refer
171 Unic, 27 | that what it is possible to say is the smallest part of
172 Unic, 27 | equal the least of these, to say nothing of the blessings
173 Unic, 27 | fraction of what there is to say. I have only said what is
174 Unic, 27 | into practice what they say about the little esteem
175 Unic, 27 | forty-seven years! I will say something about this, for
176 Unic, 27 | things which I should like to say about him but I am afraid
177 Unic, 27 | to me, for everything I say tells against myself. May
178 Unic, 28 | attempt here. I will only say that, if there were nothing
179 Unic, 28 | Those who know better than I say that the type of vision
180 Unic, 28 | The last-named type, they say, is the lowest and the most
181 Unic, 28 | not think one thing and say another for the whole world.
182 Unic, 28 | I should like now to say something of the way in
183 Unic, 28 | to be spoon-fed, as they say, if it is to retain anything.
184 Unic, 28 | clear from what I shall now say. If, in a vision, the representation
185 Unic, 28 | believing anything I might say to him, and they gave him
186 Unic, 28 | which I obeyed him. He would say that, if I did this, the
187 Unic, 28 | I endured everything. I say this so that it may be realized
188 Unic, 29 | of my necessities, as I say, and those of others --
189 Unic, 29 | unable to do so, began to say that it was clear I was
190 Unic, 29 | teaching me what I was to say to my critics; and this
191 Unic, 29 | love; it must not, as they say, be driven at the point
192 Unic, 30 | suffering -- that is to say, the opposition of good
193 Unic, 30 | But, on the whole, as I say, I was greatly comforted.
194 Unic, 30 | experiences of Him. To go and say its prayers, or to be alone,
195 Unic, 30 | consulting still, they would say such things to me, and reprove
196 Unic, 30 | want to see it free, so I say to the Lord: "When, my God,
197 Unic, 30 | following the crowd, as they say, without experiencing either
198 Unic, 30 | know if I am doing right to say so much about trifles. As
199 Unic, 31 | attentively. It is, let us say, as if someone very hot
200 Unic, 31 | but of this benefit I will say nothing lest I should write
201 Unic, 31 | hardly let him breathe, as we say: the more highly they think
202 Unic, 31 | subject to them. And so, as I say, he needs great courage.
203 Unic, 31 | experience here, I will say something to Your Reverence
204 Unic, 31 | will cling to us, if, as I say, God has not given us the
205 Unic, 31 | let him believe what I say and put this attachment
206 Unic, 31 | comes to the soul. Some will say: "I have nothing to forgo:
207 Unic, 32 | possible to endure, the doctors say, such as the shrinking of
208 Unic, 32 | with what I felt then, to say nothing of the knowledge
209 Unic, 32 | forcibly describe it. To say that it is as if the soul
210 Unic, 32 | Since that time, as I say, everything has seemed light
211 Unic, 32 | confessor this257 and to say that it was He Who was giving
212 Unic, 32 | certain things which I was to say to my companion, and to
213 Unic, 32 | and, whatever people might say to her, nothing would persuade
214 Unic, 32 | own part, although, as I say, the abandonment of the
215 Unic, 32 | consider what he should say to us, to think over the
216 Unic, 33 | to me in great concern to say that these were bad times
217 Unic, 33 | Dominican Father, who, as I say, was a very learned man,
218 Unic, 33 | rely on anything he might say to me. I told him, as clearly
219 Unic, 33 | anything. And I too could say the same thing; for previously
220 Unic, 33 | with mine, although, as I say, I do not know how this
221 Unic, 33 | Sometimes in my distress I would say: "My Lord, how is it that
222 Unic, 33 | earth looks, as one might say, like a smudge of soot.~
223 Unic, 34 | sorely afraid that they would say something about it to the
224 Unic, 34 | and that I ought not to say anything about them. He
225 Unic, 34 | begged of Him. He told me to say certain things to him. I
226 Unic, 34 | as I had no idea how to say them, and the thing I most
227 Unic, 34 | religious, until, as one might say, he hardly knows himself.
228 Unic, 34 | not think it suitable to say more about this just now,
229 Unic, 35 | ever agree with me, but say I was being ridiculous and
230 Unic, 35 | Him. For my own part, as I say, I was never afraid of being
231 Unic, 35 | become Superior, and, as I say, I could not persuade myself
232 Unic, 35 | contrary feelings: that is to say, I was rejoicing and being
233 Unic, 35 | As I say, I could not understand
234 Unic, 36 | had understood the Lord to say I should have to bear.~
235 Unic, 36 | their whole weight, as we say, into smashing us. It was
236 Unic, 36 | something about this, I will say no more here than that on
237 Unic, 36 | with me so that we might say the Office and instruct
238 Unic, 36 | When we had started to say the Office, the people began
239 Unic, 37 | It is painful to me to say more of the favours which
240 Unic, 37 | degree of fruition. I can say, then, that if I were asked
241 Unic, 37 | making mistakes, and, as I say, these are never overlooked
242 Unic, 37 | observances. But no; they say that convents should be
243 Unic, 38 | he might laugh at me and say: "What a Saint Paul she
244 Unic, 38 | which reason it is better to say no more about it.~
245 Unic, 38 | where I used often to say my prayers, and began to
246 Unic, 38 | in their hands, and, as I say, I have seen other things
247 Unic, 38 | my Glory, I am going to say that in some measure these
248 Unic, 38 | me, my Lord, I might well say that I had done something
249 Unic, 38 | I will say no more of these matters,
250 Unic, 39 | type of prayer, we might say, is like vocal prayer; the
251 Unic, 39 | far, how very far! I could say it a thousand times -- am
252 Unic, 39 | places where I distinctly say "I was told this" or "The
253 Unic, 39 | and some of the things I say will come from me altogether.
254 Unic, 39 | my deserving it. When I say that a thing has "come from
255 Unic, 39 | twenty years, since, as I say, the Lord gives to whom
256 Unic, 39 | at every moment. I do not say that His Majesty will not
257 Unic, 39 | As I say, then, it is dangerous to
258 Unic, 39 | Must he sue God, as we say, for his money's worth?
259 Unic, 39 | I believe I mean what I say. They are: "What do I care
260 Unic, 39 | occasions and as I sometimes say now to my confessor, I think
261 Unic, 40 | is that I realize this or say how much I pity those whom
262 Unic, 40 | state of frenzy. This, as I say, sometimes happens, especially
263 Unic, 40 | Fray Peter of Alc‡ntara say that, and I have also observed
264 Unic, 40 | observed it myself. He would say that women made much more
265 Unic, 40 | presumption to do so. I cannot say with certainty that I saw
266 Unic, 40 | Let us say that the Godhead is like
267 Unic, 40 | not only once but, as I say, often: it seemed to make
268 Unic, 40 | On this occasion, as I say, when I was so distressed,
269 Unic, 40 | most earnestly. I sometimes say to Him with my whole will: "
270 Unic, 40 | confessions, while still others say all kinds of things to my
271 Unic, 40 | very little what people say or what is known about me.
272 Unic, 40 | the things that people may say about me; for, since I have
273 Unic, 40 | one if I have managed to say anything for which one single
274 Lette, 0 | them; though I can truly say I have felt more keenly