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 1  Pref,   2     |          to my confessor . . . for fear he might laugh at me and
 2  Pref,   2     |        that, when there is whom to fear, they become docile and
 3  Pref,   2     |          How much more will anyone fear this to whom He has thus
 4  Intr,   0     |      nature of its contents or for fear that it would fall into
 5  Unic,   2     |         any mortal sin, or lost my fear of God, though I was much
 6  Unic,   2     |       about my honour.68 This last fear was strong enough to prevent
 7  Unic,   2     |          had anyone to teach me to fear God, my soul would have
 8  Unic,   2     |           to fall. Later, when the fear of God had entirely left
 9  Unic,   3     |         soon pass away. I began to fear that, if I had died of my
10  Unic,   3     |           been inspired by servile fear more than by love. The devil
11  Unic,   4     |            resolve, the greater my fear has been, the greater will
12  Unic,   4     |           into practice because of fear; for, if one lives a life
13  Unic,   5     |       thought that this was due to fear of death, and, in order
14  Unic,   5     |        thou shouldst do so through fear. He might have slain thee
15  Unic,   6     |         had nothing to do with any fear of mine, for it would come
16  Unic,   6     |            All these tokens of the fear of God came to me in prayer.
17  Unic,   6     |          chief of them was that my fear was always swallowed up90
18  Unic,   6     |        forsaken Thee! I cannot but fear; for, when Thou didst withdraw
19  Unic,   7     |           good man and had a great fear of God, was of the very
20  Unic,   7     |           from doing these through fear of vainglory. This is also
21  Unic,   8     |         There is no place here for fear, but only desire. For, even
22  Unic,   8     |          devil does well to instil fear into us so that he may do
23  Unic,   8     |            can have any reason for fear? For, bad though he be,
24  Unic,  11     |       strange comfort, for servile fear vanishes at once if while
25  Unic,  11     |           at once. Let him have no fear that his labour will be
26  Unic,  11     |        there is nothing for him to fear. No, spiritual people, there
27  Unic,  11     |           may stumble, it need not fear a relapse, for its building
28  Unic,  14     |           He led me, by the way of fear, and there is no one who
29  Unic,  14     |            that we should act with fear and caution, for, even if
30  Unic,  15     |           have just said, let them fear and tremble lest they be
31  Unic,  15     |       pleasing Him have nothing to fear.~
32  Unic,  15     |         combined with humility and fear with respect to our salvation.
33  Unic,  15     |          from the soul all servile fear and implants in it a very
34  Unic,  15     |          in it a very much maturer fear which springs from faith.
35  Unic,  17     |      proceed without confusion and fear and to walk in the way of
36  Unic,  19     |         that it has now nothing to fear. This condition is not a
37  Unic,  20     |            in me it produced great fear -- at first a terrible fear.
38  Unic,  20     |        fear -- at first a terrible fear. One sees one's body being
39  Unic,  20     |          there is produced a great fear of offending so great a
40  Unic,  20     |    offending so great a God, but a fear overpowered by152 the deepest
41  Unic,  20     |           go on. He told me not to fear but to set greater store
42  Unic,  20     |           below. No longer does he fear perils; rather he desires
43  Unic,  20     |         from God; indeed, I should fear that they might be the frenzies
44  Unic,  21     |       without God would temper our fear of death with the desire
45  Unic,  21     |           who walk in humility and fear, ever realizing that all
46  Unic,  22     |         Mary, there is no need for fear, even on the very first
47  Unic,  22     |      proper foundations. Indeed, I fear it will never attain to
48  Unic,  23     |            how much I owed Him, my fear increased, to such an extent
49  Unic,  23     |               When I found that my fear was getting such a hold
50  Unic,  23     |        caused me such distress and fear that I did not know what
51  Unic,  24     |         remained with me after the fear caused by the strangeness
52  Unic,  25     |           all this tribulation and fear that the devil might be
53  Unic,  25     |           I will not forsake thee: fear not."~
54  Unic,  25     |         quite calm and had no more fear of them -- in fact, I lost
55  Unic,  25     |      Majesty be pleased to make us fear Him Whom we ought to fear203
56  Unic,  25     |          fear Him Whom we ought to fear203 and understand that one
57  Unic,  25     |          hell: it is they who will fear me. I do not understand
58  Unic,  26     |         There is no need for us to fear if, as I have said, we walk
59  Unic,  26     |          said to me: Why dost thou fear? Knowest thou not that I
60  Unic,  27     |          quite happy and free from fear. All the time Jesus Christ
61  Unic,  28     |        sometimes became afraid, my fear was short-lived, for the
62  Unic,  28     |     certainty and security that my fear was soon lost.~
63  Unic,  28     |     allowed me to be left in great fear. This all came from my having
64  Unic,  29     |            let us always walk with fear.~
65  Unic,  29     | temperament. On reflection comes a fear that there is some imperfection,
66  Unic,  30     |          leading me by the road of fear, with the result that, whenever
67  Unic,  30     |           him to be wholly without fear, especially when the Lord
68  Unic,  30     |           Be not troubled: have no fear"), that one word completely
69  Unic,  32     |          pain, they caused me less fear. In the earlier vision the
70  Unic,  32     |            progress by the road of fear): of how the devils tear
71  Unic,  32     |         write: even as I sit here, fear seems to be depriving my
72  Unic,  32     |         both in taking from me all fear of the tribulations and
73  Unic,  32     |         lived in the most constant fear of God. And yet look at
74  Unic,  33     |            because I never had any fear about this. I knew quite
75  Unic,  33     |       about it which could make me fear the Inquisition. If ever
76  Unic,  33     |          as there was no cause for fear, he should comfort me and
77  Unic,  33     |         served in it. I was not to fear that there would be any
78  Unic,  34     |           the Provincial; I was to fear nothing, however, for He
79  Unic,  34     |           prayer, went without any fear, though not without the
80  Unic,  34     |            of me I was filled with fear. My soul had such misgivings
81  Unic,  34     |          he is humble, he need not fear that the Lord will allow
82  Unic,  35     |           inability to pray and my fear that I was being false to
83  Unic,  36     |         being that I was in hourly fear of being sent back to my
84  Unic,  36     |      powerful I am? What dost thou fear?" and He assured me that
85  Unic,  36     |            appearance caused me no fear -- indeed, it made me very
86  Unic,  37     |           do that speak the truth, fear nothing and need fear nothing;
87  Unic,  37     |       truth, fear nothing and need fear nothing; they are not meant
88  Unic,  37     |           we have lost our initial fear and terror at seeing Thy
89  Unic,  37     |      majesty and acquired a deeper fear of offending Thee -- but
90  Unic,  37     |        offending Thee -- but not a fear of punishment, my Lord,
91  Unic,  38     |            of any humility but for fear he might laugh at me and
92  Unic,  38     |         also left with very little fear of death, of which previously
93  Unic,  38     |         sometimes I have no little fear that He will, although,
94  Unic,  38     |        rejoice in it, however, its fear left it, and with its joy
95  Unic,  38(342)|        name particular Orders, for fear of invidiousness, and that
96  Unic,  38     |        through life with so little fear of God, when she finds herself
97  Unic,  39     |           whole body quivered with fear and I tried to catch what
98  Unic,  39     |          very soon it was gone. My fear quickly left me, and, when