Part, Chapter

 1  Pref,   2|             unhappiness in order to serve God, it would serve me as
 2  Pref,   2|        order to serve God, it would serve me as a kind of purgatory.37~
 3  Unic,   3|             state in which I was to serve Him. But I was still anxious
 4  Unic,   4|             which I thought I could serve God better or which my father
 5  Unic,   5|          virtue, though that cannot serve me as an excuse, because
 6  Unic,   6|             for health that I might serve Thee better! And that was
 7  Unic,   6|            I believed that I should serve God much better if I recovered
 8  Unic,   6|            themselves aroused me to serve Him; after I had seen myself
 9  Unic,   7|         where there are so many who serve the Lord in very truth and
10  Unic,   7|     thinking that they are going to serve the Lord and flee from the
11  Unic,   7|           desire that others should serve God. And now that I was
12  Unic,   7|           wanted others to learn to serve Him through me. I say this
13  Unic,   7|           for mercy upon him and to serve God always, remembering
14  Unic,   7|             which I so often had to serve Him and my grief at not
15  Unic,   7|            is beginning to love and serve God in earnest should not
16  Unic,   7|             up98 if those of us who serve Him are to make progress.
17  Unic,   8|     necessary, for those who do not serve God, but offend Him, and
18  Unic,   8|            it, why should those who serve and desire to serve God
19  Unic,   8|             who serve and desire to serve God give it up? Really I
20  Unic,   9|          prepared myself to want to serve Him when His Majesty began
21  Unic,  10|        still greater obligations to serve Him. We must realize that
22  Unic,  10|          new strength with which to serve Him, and endeavour not to
23  Unic,  11|            so sincerely resolved to serve God). Then they have to
24  Unic,  11|         love be given to people who serve Thee solely to obtain consolations.~
25  Unic,  11|             we bring upon ourselves serve only to disturb our souls,
26  Unic,  14|             and learning would also serve to explain many other things
27  Unic,  14|           in fact even now begun to serve His Majesty -- but I mean
28  Unic,  15|             simply because they can serve His Majesty with it and
29  Unic,  15|      Anxious, like good knights, to serve their King without pay,
30  Unic,  16|           by living133 it can still serve Thee, it would gladly take
31  Unic,  19|             they, being strong, can serve Thee without it, and that
32  Unic,  19|            answer me, Lord, saying "Serve thou Me, and meddle not
33  Unic,  21|           has not merely desires to serve God: His Majesty also gives
34  Unic,  21|           in which it thinks it may serve God can be set before it
35  Unic,  21|          handmaiden may in some way serve Thee. There have been other
36  Unic,  21|             actions. All my will to serve Thee peters out in words
37  Unic,  21|       assisting and awakening it to serve Him. When my soul reached
38  Unic,  21|          has prepared for those who serve Him. May it please His Majesty
39  Unic,  21|           and the gain of those who serve Him, what will He not do
40  Unic,  22|            it is important. It will serve as what may be necessary
41  Unic,  22|            in the hope that I might serve Thee better! True, when
42  Unic,  22|    willingly; if He is not, we must serve Him in lowly offices and
43  Unic,  24|         believe love God and try to serve Him, nor have I derived
44  Unic,  25|           What is this? I desire to serve the Lord; I aim at nothing
45  Unic,  25|        embrace the Cross and try to serve Him in truth, the devil
46  Unic,  26|         which He gives to those who serve Him without recognizing
47  Unic,  30|             I have not yet begun to serve Him, and that I am nothing
48  Unic,  30|          inward impulse moves me to serve God in some way, but I am
49  Unic,  31|            the prayers of those who serve the Lord can do a great
50  Unic,  31|             in this house do indeed serve Him. But the devils must
51  Unic,  32|             to take some trouble to serve God and refrain from doing
52  Unic,  33|         than myself, and so I could serve God quite well where I was;
53  Unic,  34|           aroused a great person to serve Him in real earnest and
54  Unic,  34|             a great honour to me to serve, otherwise than with the
55  Unic,  34|          Though I want everybody to serve God, my desire that those
56  Unic,  34|         fire of longing to begin to serve the Lord all over again.
57  Unic,  35|           God never fails those who serve Him. In short, my faith
58  Unic,  36|           whom he saw determined to serve the Lord that he at once
59  Unic,  36|        persons whose examples might serve as a foundation on which
60  Unic,  36|     remember my firm resolutions to serve the Lord and my desires
61  Unic,  36|             unhappiness in order to serve God, it would serve me as
62  Unic,  36|        order to serve God, it would serve me as a kind of purgatory.313
63  Unic,  36|             I lacking in courage to serve Him to Whom my debt was
64  Unic,  39|             the days when I did not serve Him, I had never asked Him
65  Unic,  39|          who I knew had resolved to serve God in very truth; for some
66  Unic,  39|             increases my desires to serve Him and revives my love
67  Unic,  39|             myself! How feebly do I serve Thee! Sometimes I could
68  Unic,  39| nothingnesses. Blessed are they who serve Thee by doing great deeds.
69  Unic,  39|             us. And if, the more we serve Him, the more deeply we
70  Unic,  39|           that I had in desiring to serve Thee. Blessed be Thou for
71  Unic,  39|           and that I might begin to serve Him anew, He said to me: "
72  Unic,  39|         left with a great desire to serve Our Lady, because of her
73  Unic,  40|             bless it so that it may serve Him in the Church's present
74  Unic,  40|      distressed since I resolved to serve this Lord and Comforter