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1 Pref, 2 | store for me, but, as the thing was now done, I cared very
2 Pref, 2 | so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.16~
3 Intr, 0 | the approval of any good thing that I may say, if the Lord
4 Unic, 2 | began to incline to the thing that was the cause of all
5 Unic, 2 | so numerous, there is one thing which I think might have
6 Unic, 3 | sufficed to turn me back from a thing when I had once said I would
7 Unic, 4 | purpose by resolving to do a thing for God's sake alone, it
8 Unic, 5 | must never do the smallest thing that is wrong in order to
9 Unic, 6 | It was a wonderful thing for me to have received
10 Unic, 7 | first motions of such a thing, it distressed me so much
11 Unic, 7 | think it was a very bad thing for me not to be in a convent
12 Unic, 7 | This is a most important thing, if only because we can
13 Unic, 7 | People think it a good thing to follow the pleasures
14 Unic, 8 | to spend some time on a thing which is so good.~~
15 Unic, 9 | whom I know. It is a good thing for those who follow this
16 Unic, 9 | I did not actually see a thing I could not use my imagination,
17 Unic, 9 | for me. There was only one thing that troubled me, and this
18 Unic, 10 | And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all
19 Unic, 10 | the approval of any good thing that I may say, if the Lord
20 Unic, 10 | If, then, I say any good thing, it will be because the
21 Unic, 11 | to receive that precious thing which it is His Majesty'
22 Unic, 11 | of our will. And the same thing happens with everything
23 Unic, 11 | degrees of prayer the chief thing is fruition, although, whether
24 Unic, 11 | when God gives them such a thing, they ought not to accept
25 Unic, 11 | with spiritual persons. The thing frequently arises from physical
26 Unic, 12 | understanding of the whole thing, so that I was able to speak
27 Unic, 13 | For it would not be a good thing for a person who was weak
28 Unic, 13 | the soul;117 and this is a thing which it is very profitable
29 Unic, 13 | There is a time for one thing and a time for another;
30 Unic, 13 | between understanding a thing and knowing it by experience.
31 Unic, 13 | truth. Learning is a great thing, for it teaches those of
32 Unic, 14(122)| special stress on some such thing when it catches her imagination.]~
33 Unic, 15 | sought by ourselves, is not a thing that can be acquired, as
34 Unic, 15 | for charity is a great thing, and so is a constant care
35 Unic, 15 | It is a very great thing always to bear this in mind,
36 Unic, 17 | This is a thing which can be very clearly
37 Unic, 17 | look next: as he sees one thing he loses sight of another
38 Unic, 17 | nowhere, but goes from one thing to another, like nothing
39 Unic, 18 | any understanding of the thing in which the soul is rejoicing.
40 Unic, 18 | is rejoicing in some good thing, in which are comprised
41 Unic, 18 | cannot comprehend this good thing. In this rejoicing all the
42 Unic, 18 | not make it a different thing: it is the same flame which
43 Unic, 18 | union itself is a different thing from the elevation which
44 Unic, 18 | myself to speak of such a thing and to make any attempt
45 Unic, 18 | can be no doubt some great thing has taken place: we experience
46 Unic, 18 | There was one thing of which at first I was
47 Unic, 19 | ever be guilty of such a thing. For now it sees with its
48 Unic, 19 | venture to say that the only thing they helped me to do was
49 Unic, 19 | way seems to be the same thing as giving up prayer. May
50 Unic, 20 | names all refer to the same thing, which is also called ecstasy.
51 Unic, 20 | me a most extraordinary thing and I thought there would
52 Unic, 20 | even though it were the thing which it had been accustomed
53 Unic, 20 | been describing is some thing even greater than a rapture
54 Unic, 20 | temptation and a ridiculous thing. If they knew that it arises,
55 Unic, 21 | so. For it is a different thing to win a kingdom that shall
56 Unic, 21 | the other; and this is a thing which can be very clearly
57 Unic, 22 | There is one thing that I want to say, if Your
58 Unic, 22 | be of God. It is a great thing for us, while we live as
59 Unic, 22 | it will need no created thing to assist it in recollection.
60 Unic, 22 | impossible to do either the one thing or the other. For that reason
61 Unic, 22 | come what may, the great thing for us to do is to embrace
62 Unic, 22 | One thing which I should like to ask
63 Unic, 23 | me believe it was a good thing, so that he might deprive
64 Unic, 23(182)| a stout (tough, hard) thing." As we might say in conversation: "
65 Unic, 23 | hope and give up the whole thing. I sometimes marvel that,
66 Unic, 23 | the devil, and the wisest thing for me to do would be to
67 Unic, 23 | different person. What a great thing it is to understand a soul!
68 Unic, 24(193)| Lit.: "any superfluous thing" -- presumably referring
69 Unic, 24 | to which was the better thing to do. So I spent the greater
70 Unic, 25 | one case it is as if the thing is there but we cannot be
71 Unic, 25 | must be convinced that a thing comes from God only if it
72 Unic, 26 | away, and so its love is a thing most evident, which, as
73 Unic, 26 | ordered me to do the same thing. When a great many books
74 Unic, 27 | experience; and that the thing was quite clear to me. I
75 Unic, 27 | men have told me the same thing. Of all kinds of vision
76 Unic, 27 | accomplish nothing -- the whole thing seems to be the work of
77 Unic, 27 | been moved to desire such a thing, nor had it even come to
78 Unic, 27 | protection. It was a very common thing for him to take food only
79 Unic, 27 | friars. It was the same thing out of doors. At women he
80 Unic, 28 | began to think the same thing myself -- that I had imagined
81 Unic, 28 | intention; I would not think one thing and say another for the
82 Unic, 28 | ridiculous to think that the one thing is any more like the other
83 Unic, 28 | fact, that it is a dead thing. But let us pass over that,
84 Unic, 28 | occupied, it is a great thing that so Divine a Presence
85 Unic, 28 | chapter on locutions. The thing is very easy to recognize;
86 Unic, 29 | from God, it was a terrible thing to have to do; and, as I
87 Unic, 29 | to understand how such a thing could be. Oh, what it is
88 Unic, 30 | His keeping, which is the thing that matters.~
89 Unic, 31 | resist him. But the worst thing had been the interior disquiet:
90 Unic, 31 | quite recently, the same thing happened to me, though it
91 Unic, 31 | confess such a dreadful thing. He had a great desire to
92 Unic, 31 | that he is guilty of such a thing, the reason sometimes being
93 Unic, 31 | discordant. Such concern is a thing which harms the soul whenever
94 Unic, 31 | nothing, to be hurt by a thing like this), one's actions
95 Unic, 32 | terrible, and it is a perilous thing for a soul to indulge in
96 Unic, 32 | occurred to me that the first thing was to follow the vocation
97 Unic, 32 | determination or certainty that the thing would be done. I felt now
98 Unic, 32 | that they said the whole thing had come out of our own
99 Unic, 33 | tell them the principal thing -- namely, that I had been
100 Unic, 33 | I too could say the same thing; for previously he had been
101 Unic, 33 | never doing the slightest thing save in conformity with
102 Unic, 34 | it are one and the same thing without any division, and
103 Unic, 34 | Him not to permit such a thing. I soon learned that I might
104 Unic, 34 | how to say them, and the thing I most dislike, as I have
105 Unic, 34 | understands and show him that a thing is not impossible because
106 Unic, 34 | he has no experience of a thing he consults those who have;
107 Unic, 34 | this sickness it is a great thing to find another stricken
108 Unic, 34 | profession. Oh, what a great thing it is, when the Lord gives
109 Unic, 34 | for, if there is a single thing to which a man clings, it
110 Unic, 34 | go; I then heard the same thing several times more. When
111 Unic, 34 | confession. So it was a fortunate thing that, following her usual
112 Unic, 35 | discontent, and also that the thing would cause some distraction.
113 Unic, 35 | thought it a very great thing that she should agree to
114 Unic, 35 | that in place of the one thing they have forsaken He has
115 Unic, 36 | of helping it. The whole thing was due to the approval
116 Unic, 36 | anything in it. The remarkable thing was that his illness lasted
117 Unic, 36 | to eat, and if the whole thing was not ridiculous -- and
118 Unic, 36 | never existed. The only thing I remembered now was my
119 Unic, 36 | store for me, but, as the thing was now done, I cared very
120 Unic, 36 | must not agree to such a thing, for, if once we had an
121 Unic, 36 | had done had been a happy thing for him, since they had
122 Unic, 37 | This was such a harmful thing that it was ruining my soul.
123 Unic, 37 | more. I believe the best thing is for the soul to be completely
124 Unic, 38 | think it will be a great thing if there should be anyone
125 Unic, 38 | pilgrims; it is a great thing to see what is awaiting
126 Unic, 38 | peasant -- and this is a thing which I know actually happened.
127 Unic, 38 | great Majesty, hidden in a thing so small as the Host, without
128 Unic, 38 | people, and what a terrible thing it is to take this Most
129 Unic, 38 | God that this frightful thing which I saw could be seen
130 Unic, 38 | seems to me a very dangerous thing to have the charge of souls.
131 Unic, 39 | it, yet, even if it is a thing which touches me nearly,
132 Unic, 39 | deserving it. When I say that a thing has "come from me", I mean
133 Unic, 39 | ever dared to do such a thing. It may be, however, that
134 Unic, 39 | that there was any created thing in which it could rest,
135 Unic, 40 | doing for thee is no small thing, but one of the things for
136 Unic, 40 | the Lord said one special thing which has been of the greatest
137 Unic, 40 | might the very smallest thing contained in the Divine
138 Unic, 40 | understand that it is a great thing. It gave me a very great
139 Unic, 40 | There is one thing which happens in a deep
140 Unic, 40 | I am so much like a dead thing that I once thought nobody
141 Unic, 40 | be given to the Lord, a thing for which I have prayed