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1 Pref, 2 | was now done, I cared very little about that.5~
2 Pref, 2 | they can have said very little that was correct."13 No
3 Pref, 2 | evade one are innumerable little natural touches which, in
4 Pref, 3 | volumes there was only a very little space to spare, even when
5 Intr, 0 | writings would have shown how little she trusted for inspiration
6 Intr, 0 | the Foundations to "a tiny little book" in which she "believed
7 Intr, 0 | refers to it elsewhere as "little" by contrast with her considerably
8 Intr, 0 | centuries, when mysticism was little in favour, and to mention
9 Unic, 1 | Lord had given me and how little I profited by them. My brothers
10 Unic, 1 | as I could, which was but little. I tried to be alone when
11 Unic, 1 | Whenever I played with other little girls, I used to love building
12 Unic, 1 | twelve years of age or a little less.64 When I began to
13 Unic, 2 | copied her goodness very little, in fact hardly at all,
14 Unic, 2 | a habit of it, and this little fault which I saw in my
15 Unic, 2 | exactly of my own age or a little older than I. We always
16 Unic, 3 | and safest state, and so, little by little, I determined
17 Unic, 3 | state, and so, little by little, I determined to force myself
18 Unic, 4 | venial sins I troubled very little and it was this which brought
19 Unic, 4(82) | twenty-three and was probably a little older.]~
20 Unic, 4 | necessary for him, however little it may be, as a substitute
21 Unic, 4 | sufficient. Sometimes I read a little, sometimes a great deal,
22 Unic, 4 | all my resolutions were of little profit to me, though, in
23 Unic, 5 | which in themselves were of little importance. I was very often
24 Unic, 5 | though confessors with only a little of it have done my soul
25 Unic, 5 | none at all than only a little; for then they do not trust
26 Unic, 5 | for at that time I had little to confess by comparison
27 Unic, 5 | spell over him, giving him a little copper figure and begging
28 Unic, 5 | please me, he gave me the little figure, which I at once
29 Unic, 5 | consumptive. This troubled me very little: it was the pains that distressed
30 Unic, 6 | and when I had rested a little I used to think I was getting
31 Unic, 6 | my faults, when I saw how little I improved and how neither
32 Unic, 6 | must act like one who has little discretion in all that is
33 Unic, 6 | me; for I know well how little my strength and insufficiency
34 Unic, 6 | didst withdraw from me but a little, I fell utterly to the ground.
35 Unic, 7 | hands. Parents seem to give little thought to the placing of
36 Unic, 7 | religion is frequented so little that, if the friar and the
37 Unic, 7 | me in every way and how little did I profit by Thy warnings!~
38 Unic, 7 | troubles I now make such little account that I often rejoice
39 Unic, 7 | With a little care, great blessings can
40 Unic, 7 | vanities, this remark made little impression upon me. There
41 Unic, 7 | everything I could do was very little. But when I find myself
42 Unic, 7 | freely. For people trouble so little about things pertaining
43 Unic, 8 | time rising again, but to little purpose, as I would only
44 Unic, 8 | this now. But I remember little about these good days, so
45 Unic, 8 | People say that I have little courage, and it is clear
46 Unic, 8 | cost: in exchange for a little labour on their part, He
47 Unic, 9 | well, I used to think for a little of that scene -- the prayer
48 Unic, 9 | I had so little ability for picturing things
49 Unic, 9 | frightens me to remember how little I could do by myself and
50 Unic, 10 | to this there be added a little love, the soul is comforted,
51 Unic, 10 | heard or read, but I have little ability or memory of my
52 Unic, 10 | praised and magnified a little when it is seen that on
53 Unic, 11 | pleased to give it to us little by little, even though the
54 Unic, 11 | give it to us little by little, even though the receiving
55 Unic, 11 | back he needs not merely a little courage but a very great
56 Unic, 11 | dislike, distaste and so little desire to go and draw water
57 Unic, 11 | can persuade itself to set little store by consolations and
58 Unic, 12 | although our deeds may be of little worth. This method of bringing
59 Unic, 13 | from them if they relax a little. It is well to have misgivings
60 Unic, 13 | progress, though, like a little unfledged bird, it is apt
61 Unic, 13 | try to forget the body a little and to cultivate the spirit.
62 Unic, 13 | reflect that we have so little confidence in God, and so
63 Unic, 13 | us. When we have made so little spiritual progress, the
64 Unic, 13 | trouble about them very little. For it pleased God to reveal
65 Unic, 13 | Even if I die it is of little consequence." "Rest, indeed!"
66 Unic, 13 | themselves they can do so little that their intellect hinders
67 Unic, 13 | great a King and sees how little it is paying of all that
68 Unic, 13 | mean that learning is of little benefit to beginners, except
69 Unic, 13 | teaches those of us who have little knowledge, and gives us
70 Unic, 13 | merely because we practise a little more prayer than they.~
71 Unic, 14 | greatest consolation, and so little labour is involved that,
72 Unic, 14 | things, we can acquire but little if the Lord is not pleased
73 Unic, 14 | matter, they explain very little; and if the soul has not
74 Unic, 14 | very summit of prayer. The little time I have makes it none
75 Unic, 14 | I write but have to do a little at a time. I wish I had
76 Unic, 14 | increase the fragrance of the little buds of virtue which seemed
77 Unic, 15 | it helps to prevent this little spark of love for God from
78 Unic, 15 | This prayer, then, is a little spark of true love for the
79 Unic, 15 | and recollection -- this little spark -- if it proceeds
80 Unic, 15 | on it to quench it. This little spark, then, planted within
81 Unic, 15 | recollected as the wise little bee, for if no bees entered
82 Unic, 15 | clever reflections. A few little straws laid down with humility (
83 Unic, 15 | after prayer, they will have little need for it, in my view,
84 Unic, 15 | there is more value in a little study of humility and in
85 Unic, 15 | behind it disquiet and very little humility and does little
86 Unic, 15 | little humility and does little to prepare the soul for
87 Unic, 15 | in such a case, can do little or no harm if the soul directs
88 Unic, 15 | to the Cross, it will pay little attention to pleasure given
89 Unic, 16 | this point, was to say very little about it, or even nothing
90 Unic, 16 | and so their flame gives little heat: I do not say that
91 Unic, 17 | those restless, importunate little moths that fly by night:
92 Unic, 18 | another, the Lord takes this little bird and puts it into the
93 Unic, 18 | is that this importunate little butterfly -- the memory --
94 Unic, 19 | that of itself it can do little or nothing, and that it
95 Unic, 19 | great effort and it can take little credit for that. Then its
96 Unic, 19 | of sin and helped me but little -- I will even venture to
97 Unic, 19 | rising again, and making very little progress; still, he who
98 Unic, 20(151)| chronology would seem to have little meaning. Lewis (p. 162,
99 Unic, 20 | Lord's will avails very little, for no power can do anything
100 Unic, 20 | There is very little, then, that a person in
101 Unic, 20 | means that there will be little for him to do when the faculties
102 Unic, 20 | learned to fly. Now the little bird has lost its unformed
103 Unic, 20 | becomes very evident in the little weight now given by the
104 Unic, 20 | with serving the Lord a little but must do so to the greatest
105 Unic, 20 | world would get on, and how little trafficking there would
106 Unic, 20 | sunlight that it sees every little speck of dust, however small;
107 Unic, 20 | blinded by clay.163 The little dove is blind. And very
108 Unic, 21 | truths I think I should set little store by my own life. I
109 Unic, 21 | I know, my Lord, of how little I am capable. But now that
110 Unic, 21 | works; for it knows how little good is done by the one
111 Unic, 21 | a way that there remains little for it to do in order to
112 Unic, 22 | me, I could have learned little from books, for until His
113 Unic, 22 | experienced had come in little sips, and, once these were
114 Unic, 22 | have said already. This little mote of deficient humility,
115 Unic, 22 | know this and be like the little donkeys that draw the above-described
116 Unic, 22 | short time and with very little labour. May His Majesty
117 Unic, 22 | people; those who eat very little of it experience the pleasant
118 Unic, 23 | But as soon as I became a little distracted, I would grow
119 Unic, 23(182)| say in conversation: "A little too strong."]~
120 Unic, 23 | I was such a slave to my little bad habits that I could
121 Unic, 23 | the devil, he could do me little harm provided I strove to
122 Unic, 23 | determinedly he was attacking these little habits of mine which I have
123 Unic, 23 | so many bad points and so little that was good that it caused
124 Unic, 23 | anyone. However, this was of little use, because when I was
125 Unic, 24 | after she began to obey, how little it availed her to resist
126 Unic, 24 | trouble about it all very little. But this moved me the more,
127 Unic, 24 | Then I began to see how little this had to do with it;
128 Unic, 25 | try to resist, though with little success.~
129 Unic, 25 | them all, failest never. Little is the suffering that Thou
130 Unic, 26 | methods, that I have had very little need of books -- indeed,
131 Unic, 27 | which we women, who have so little knowledge, can describe
132 Unic, 27 | what they say about the little esteem in which the world
133 Unic, 27 | person from whom he concealed little218 -- the reason he told
134 Unic, 28 | understanding. But it was all to little purpose, because there were
135 Unic, 28 | have done His Majesty a little service here; for I am quite
136 Unic, 29 | means of the imagination? No little time would be necessary
137 Unic, 29 | and the brilliance of it; little by little one may even learn
138 Unic, 29 | brilliance of it; little by little one may even learn to perfect
139 Unic, 29 | me. This troubled me very little, but I was sorry when I
140 Unic, 29 | but about this I could do little or nothing, and the Lord
141 Unic, 29 | they appear to calm down a little, or, at any rate, the soul
142 Unic, 30 | when I saw that I could do little or nothing to stop myself
143 Unic, 30 | to resist, I could do so little that it sometimes fatigued
144 Unic, 30 | He is the author of some little books on prayer, written
145 Unic, 30(235)| The only one of these "little books" still extant is the
146 Unic, 30 | these, and I know well how little a soul can do when it is
147 Unic, 30 | appears to me to be like a little ass, feeding and sustaining
148 Unic, 30 | gives them. It reminds me of little springs which I have seen
149 Unic, 30 | and, as I said, I have so little time) without perhaps doing
150 Unic, 31 | beside me a most hideous little negro, snarling as if in
151 Unic, 31 | direction of the place where the little negro was standing and immediately
152 Unic, 31 | creatures tormented me and so little am I afraid of them, now
153 Unic, 31 | true servant of God to make little account of these horrors,
154 Unic, 31 | that, every time we pay little heed to them, they lose
155 Unic, 31 | realize so clearly now how little power the devils have, if
156 Unic, 31 | realize now that all these little fears and troubles and this
157 Unic, 31 | holding our own reputation in little esteem; cultivating detachment
158 Unic, 31 | Lord let them believe this little ant, for she speaks because
159 Unic, 31 | out things which are of little or no consequence, just
160 Unic, 31 | faults was this: I knew very little of my office book, and of
161 Unic, 31 | should become aware how little I knew. But good example
162 Unic, 31 | Once God opened my eyes a little, I would ask the other girls'
163 Unic, 31 | it, which made me not a little ashamed. For my virtue had
164 Unic, 31 | I go on counting these little grains of sand, which as
165 Unic, 32 | torn from the body is very little, for that would mean that
166 Unic, 32 | rarely, as my soul made little progress by the road of
167 Unic, 32 | to be in the convent very little; the devil must have had
168 Unic, 32 | not to think He was very little served in them, for what
169 Unic, 32 | case there would be too little of it, and that the plan
170 Unic, 32(260)| which, however, he saw very little, for he died in 1565.~
171 Unic, 33 | alone and there was so very little that I could do. We agreed
172 Unic, 33 | she could, but that was little -- so little as to be hardly
173 Unic, 33 | but that was little -- so little as to be hardly anything
174 Unic, 33(270)| have compared it to the "little porch of Bethlehem" (cf.
175 Unic, 33 | So I went to look at the little house, and worked things
176 Unic, 33 | alms. It has cost me no little trouble to get this principle
177 Unic, 34 | It disturbed me a little and distressed me a great
178 Unic, 34 | myself. I learned, too, how little regard ought to be paid
179 Unic, 34 | one can really place very little trust in them. It is impossible
180 Unic, 34 | which will reveal to him how little he understands and show
181 Unic, 34 | understand it, he will gain little himself and the people who
182 Unic, 34 | concerning prayer. There was little enough humility in me that
183 Unic, 34 | made her last confession little more than a week previously.
184 Unic, 35 | out the business of this little corner of God's house (for
185 Unic, 36 | each find by experience how little either of happiness or of
186 Unic, 36 | it was here. He gave me a little light, so that I should
187 Unic, 36 | over, I wanted to get a little rest after dinner. (All
188 Unic, 36 | was now done, I cared very little about that. I prayed to
189 Unic, 36 | been able to rest for a little and be alone -- and I needed
190 Unic, 36 | the affair, she relented a little, and they all sent for the
191 Unic, 36 | rather glad. If I had had a little faith, I should not have
192 Unic, 37 | and afterwards to gain a little more glory, or to have no
193 Unic, 37 | trials in exchange for a little more fruition in the understanding
194 Unic, 37 | them, in so many words, how little attachment I had to anybody,
195 Unic, 37 | learn by experience how little it can do of itself.~
196 Unic, 38 | otherwise, such efforts are of little avail. I had been in that
197 Unic, 38 | things of this life as of little worth. I wish I could give
198 Unic, 38 | of it." Ah, my Lord, how little will my words profit those
199 Unic, 38 | was also left with very little fear of death, of which
200 Unic, 38 | this: sometimes I have no little fear that He will, although,
201 Unic, 38 | but its wings were made of little shells which emitted a great
202 Unic, 38 | gone through life with so little fear of God, when she finds
203 Unic, 38 | sight and had need of no little courage to hide the fact.
204 Unic, 38 | which must have been very little, and then I begged the Lord
205 Unic, 39 | it, my prayers have very little power or spirituality or
206 Unic, 39 | much when I give Him so little. For what can a man accomplish,
207 Unic, 39 | hearts and gives them a little light and love -- I mean,
208 Unic, 39 | presumption. My own humility is little enough, yet I do not think
209 Unic, 39 | have had, and still have, little opportunity for writing)
210 Unic, 39 | has served to sustain the little virtue that I had in desiring
211 Unic, 40 | distressed when I see of how little use I am in His service
212 Unic, 40 | He would let me suffer a little, He would comfort me in
213 Unic, 40 | I seem to be getting a little nearer to the vision of
214 Unic, 40 | knows, it has caused me no little suffering down to this very
215 Unic, 40 | glory be to God! -- very little; for I believe the Lord
216 Unic, 40 | Majesty has put me in this little corner,366 where I live
217 Unic, 40 | from above and care very little what people say or what
218 Unic, 40 | Your Reverence, for the little opportunity I have of writing
219 Lette, 0 | twice, for I have had so little time that I have been unable