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1 Pref, 2 | move a finger unless the Lord permits it. Whatever are
2 Pref, 2 | Blessed be Thou, Lord, Who hast made me so incompetent
3 Pref, 2 | maravilla.~(Lit.: Even now the Lord, when He speaks, it seems
4 Pref, 2 | been placed there by the Lord for aid to that soul and
5 Pref, 2 | Which means:~When it is the Lord, and He speaks, it is natural
6 Pref, 2 | is able to feel that the Lord is sending him to be a help
7 Intr, 0 | of those gifts which the Lord has laid up in this life
8 Intr, 0 | fruition of union with the Lord of that Castle and experience
9 Intr, 0 | the fervent lovers of Our Lord who have gone to the school
10 Intr, 0 | thing that I may say, if the Lord gives me grace to say it,
11 Intr, 0 | Favours granted her by the Lord, Devout verses which she
12 Intr, 0 | pious commentary on the Lord's Prayer, the seven petitions
13 Intr, 0 | her own meditations on the Lord's Prayer. Since the Life
14 Unic, 1 | CHAPTER I - Describes how the Lord began to awaken her soul
15 Unic, 1 | feared God, and also that the Lord granted me His favour to
16 Unic, 1 | what good inclinations the Lord had given me and how little
17 Unic, 1 | tender an age, I believe the Lord had given us sufficient
18 Unic, 1 | these words, it pleased the Lord that in my earliest years
19 Unic, 1 | O my Lord, since it seems Thou art
20 Unic, 1 | defiled? It grieves me, Lord, even to say this, since
21 Unic, 1 | natural graces which the Lord had given me, and which
22 Unic, 2 | pleased with me; for the Lord had given me grace, wherever
23 Unic, 2 | Himself. Blessed be Thou, Lord, Who for so long hast suffered
24 Unic, 2 | was through her that the Lord seems to have been pleased
25 Unic, 3 | and the way in which the Lord began to give her light
26 Unic, 3 | me the reward which the Lord gives to those who leave
27 Unic, 3 | my own improvement, the Lord became more desirous of
28 Unic, 3 | too, I owe chiefly to the Lord, for I have always been
29 Unic, 3 | of virtues. Him, too, the Lord was preparing for Himself:
30 Unic, 4 | CHAPTER IV - Describes how the Lord helped her to force herself
31 Unic, 4 | strain to me that, if the Lord had not helped me, no reflections
32 Unic, 4 | true to my purpose. But the Lord gave me courage to fight
33 Unic, 4 | I took the habit,79 the Lord at once showed me how great
34 Unic, 4 | use of it. But Thou, my Lord, wert prepared to be offended
35 Unic, 4 | In whom, Lord, can they shine forth as
36 Unic, 4 | fortune, may Thy mercy, Lord, be availing for me.~
37 Unic, 4 | my might. As by now the Lord had granted me the gift
38 Unic, 4 | about my fall. Still, the Lord began to be so gracious
39 Unic, 4 | Christ, our Good and our Lord, as present within me, and
40 Unic, 4 | when I thought about the Lord's Humanity, or tried to
41 Unic, 4 | that it was through the Lord's good providence that I
42 Unic, 4 | to the favour which the Lord showed me. It seemed to
43 Unic, 4 | good works have been, this Lord of mine has been improving
44 Unic, 4 | detail the way in which the Lord dealt with me in these early
45 Unic, 5 | patience given her by the Lord, and of how He brings good
46 Unic, 5 | world! May it please Thee, Lord, that I may be completely
47 Unic, 5 | affection in my favour, for the Lord has kept me from this. If
48 Unic, 5 | of sin. It seems that the Lord's will was that he should
49 Unic, 5 | a great favour from the Lord, for, as could clearly be
50 Unic, 5 | of St. Gregory,86 for the Lord seems to have used this
51 Unic, 5 | things at the hand of the Lord, why shall we not suffer
52 Unic, 5 | dead. But it pleased the Lord that I should return to
53 Unic, 5 | point, and realize how the Lord seems to have raised me
54 Unic, 5 | the danger from which the Lord has delivered thee, so that
55 Unic, 6 | all that she owed to the Lord for granting her resignation
56 Unic, 6 | such a state that only the Lord can know what intolerable
57 Unic, 6 | at the patience which the Lord gave me; for if it had not
58 Unic, 6 | of the favours which the Lord was giving me in prayer,
59 Unic, 6 | the great favour which the Lord bestowed upon me in granting
60 Unic, 6 | ourselves entirely in the Lord's hands; yet He knows best
61 Unic, 6 | took for my advocate and lord the glorious Saint Joseph
62 Unic, 6 | that this my father and lord delivered me both from this
63 Unic, 6 | soul. To other saints the Lord seems to have given grace
64 Unic, 6 | in them all and that the Lord wishes to teach us that
65 Unic, 6 | characteristic that, if the Lord gave me grace to do anything
66 Unic, 6 | meticulousness and vanity. May the Lord forgive me. I wish I could
67 Unic, 6 | will not go astray. May the Lord grant that I have not erred
68 Unic, 6 | me alive? What it is, my Lord, to have to live a life
69 Unic, 6 | described; but Thou seest, my Lord, that, so far as I can understand,
70 Unic, 6 | uncertain. I used to think, my Lord, that it was impossible
71 Unic, 6 | giving me Thy hand. Often, Lord, I would not take it, and
72 Unic, 7 | lose the favours which the Lord had granted her and how
73 Unic, 7 | I saw very clearly, my Lord, that this was failing me
74 Unic, 7 | in the convent, for the Lord held me by His hand. It
75 Unic, 7 | down to hell, had not the Lord, through very special favours,
76 Unic, 7 | are so many who serve the Lord in very truth and with great
77 Unic, 7 | are so ill understood, the Lord has perforce to call each
78 Unic, 7 | people see this and the Lord must needs take the matter
79 Unic, 7 | end, it is revealed by the Lord. They do harm not only to
80 Unic, 7 | they are going to serve the Lord and flee from the world
81 Unic, 7 | acquaintance with her, when the Lord was pleased to make me realize
82 Unic, 7 | order that, if it is the Lord's will and pleasure that
83 Unic, 7 | nuns, for the love of Our Lord, to flee from such pastimes
84 Unic, 7 | progress that I praised the Lord greatly and was wonderfully
85 Unic, 7 | they are pleasing to the Lord.~
86 Unic, 7 | formation of a habit; and the Lord always gives us an opportunity
87 Unic, 7 | acquired at times when the Lord deprives us of our hours
88 Unic, 7 | was no longer serving the Lord according to my ability,
89 Unic, 7 | The Lord must be praised for the
90 Unic, 7 | fortnight before his death the Lord had made him realize that
91 Unic, 7 | think so devoutly of the Lord carrying the Cross on His
92 Unic, 7 | the day of his death, the Lord restored his consciousness
93 Unic, 7 | of person I was; yet the Lord would hide the wrongs I
94 Unic, 7 | O Lord of my soul! How can I magnify
95 Unic, 7 | I can say that, if the Lord had not revealed this truth
96 Unic, 8 | can see how great was the Lord's mercy to me, since, while
97 Unic, 8 | myself from offending the Lord, devoted myself earnestly
98 Unic, 8 | Him too and I begged the Lord that this might be so and
99 Unic, 8 | the devil leads it, the Lord, I am certain, will bring
100 Unic, 8 | I beg, for love of the Lord, not to miss so great a
101 Unic, 8 | conditions are necessary: on the Lord's side we know these cannot
102 Unic, 8 | good a Friend art Thou, my Lord! How Thou dost comfort us
103 Unic, 8 | times when we love Thee, my Lord, and, when for a moment
104 Unic, 8 | company (for Thou knowest, Lord, that at first this is as
105 Unic, 8 | of it.) In the end, the Lord would come to my help. Afterwards,
106 Unic, 8 | Now if the Lord bore for so long with such
107 Unic, 8 | so many favours from the Lord. Who can possibly despair,
108 Unic, 8 | to seek it, or rather the Lord Himself forced me? If, then,
109 Unic, 8 | people practise prayer the Lord Himself bears the cost:
110 Unic, 8 | these consolations which the Lord gives to those who persevere
111 Unic, 8 | loving-kindness with which the Lord endeavours to bring it back
112 Unic, 8 | them, for the love of Our Lord, and for the great love
113 Unic, 8 | it. I used to beseech the Lord to help me; but I now believe
114 Unic, 9 | Describes the means by which the Lord began to awaken her soul
115 Unic, 9 | communicated, for, knowing that the Lord was certainly within me
116 Unic, 9 | themselves, save when the Lord is pleased to call them
117 Unic, 9 | imagine them at all, until the Lord showed them to me in another
118 Unic, 9 | me when I thought of Our Lord. It was for this reason
119 Unic, 9 | if they do not love the Lord, for if they loved Him they
120 Unic, 9 | Augustine,103 and I think the Lord must have ordained this,
121 Unic, 9 | been sinners before the Lord brought them back to Himself.
122 Unic, 9 | namely that, after the Lord had once called them, they
123 Unic, 9 | seemed exactly as if the Lord were speaking in that way
124 Unic, 9 | It really seems that the Lord found a way to make me desire
125 Unic, 9 | It is not usual for the Lord to give them save to those
126 Unic, 10 | describe the favours which the Lord granted her in prayer. Explains
127 Unic, 10 | understand the favours which the Lord is granting us. Asks those
128 Unic, 10 | favours granted her by the Lord.~
129 Unic, 10 | force; at other times the Lord seems to be drawing them
130 Unic, 10 | is weeping for so great a Lord; and I do not wonder at
131 Unic, 10 | Heaven see no more than the Lord wills them to see, and as
132 Unic, 10 | not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon
133 Unic, 10 | the result that, when the Lord begins to grant them, it
134 Unic, 10 | to speak of vanities, the Lord has now granted me the desire
135 Unic, 10 | the bounteousness of the Lord, Who on a soul as poor and
136 Unic, 10 | the condition on which the Lord bestows His jewels. Unless
137 Unic, 10 | through these gifts that the Lord bestows upon us the fortitude
138 Unic, 10 | him, for the love of the Lord, that what I have thus far
139 Unic, 10 | thing that I may say, if the Lord gives me grace to say it,
140 Unic, 10 | numerous things to do. If the Lord had given me more ability,
141 Unic, 10 | it will be because the Lord has been pleased, for some
142 Unic, 10 | do what, for love of the Lord, I am asking you, I am writing
143 Unic, 10 | gain for the devil. The Lord well knows that, as I shall
144 Unic, 10 | of danger about which the Lord has taught me by experience.
145 Unic, 10 | make use of me. For my Lord well knows that I have no
146 Unic, 10 | Reverence, for love of the Lord, to beg Him for me, for
147 Unic, 11 | stage we act as we should. O Lord of my soul and my Good!
148 Unic, 11 | had apparently made Him Lord of our will. And the same
149 Unic, 11 | The Lord shows exceeding great mercy
150 Unic, 11 | themselves who labour and the Lord Who gives the increase.
151 Unic, 11 | make a garden in which the Lord is to take His delight,
152 Unic, 11 | give refreshment to this Lord of ours, so that He may
153 Unic, 11 | by heavy rain, when the Lord waters it with no labour
154 Unic, 11 | degrees of prayer to which the Lord, of His goodness, has occasionally
155 Unic, 11 | whom in four months the Lord has brought to a point far
156 Unic, 11 | making that soon, by the Lord's help, it will be submerged.
157 Unic, 11 | pleasing and serving the Lord of the garden; if he were
158 Unic, 11 | those hours in which the Lord has granted me to taste
159 Unic, 11 | and again later, it is the Lord's will to give us these
160 Unic, 11 | there that Thou doest, my Lord, which is not for the greater
161 Unic, 11 | and we are then near the Lord of the garden, Who is certainly
162 Unic, 11 | is that to me? Do Thou, O Lord, what Thou wilt; let me
163 Unic, 11 | any. I desire to suffer, Lord, because Thou didst suffer.
164 Unic, 11 | neither to be elated when the Lord gives them nor disconsolate
165 Unic, 11 | We must realize that the Lord pays no heed to these things:
166 Unic, 11 | and he will find that the Lord will help him to bear it;
167 Unic, 12 | bestowed upon it by the Lord.~
168 Unic, 12 | examine and meditate upon the Lord's sufferings for us, we
169 Unic, 12 | and the love which the Lord bore us, and His resurrection,
170 Unic, 12 | really learns to love this Lord to Whom we owe so much,
171 Unic, 12 | devotion, but thank the Lord Who allows us to harbour
172 Unic, 12 | nothing whatsoever. When the Lord suspends the understanding
173 Unic, 12 | be so only to me. May the Lord open the eyes of those who
174 Unic, 12 | try to explain what the Lord was teaching me so that
175 Unic, 12 | attempt to learn what the Lord has not taught me, unless
176 Unic, 12 | they are lifted up by the Lord: in the latter case we shall
177 Unic, 12 | I am convinced that the Lord never allows anyone to be
178 Unic, 12 | less than I should. May the Lord be blessed for it all, Whose
179 Unic, 13 | Saint Augustine: "Give me, Lord, what Thou commandest me
180 Unic, 13(113)| author is attributing Our Lord's words in St. Matthew xix,
181 Unic, 13 | practising it still if the Lord in His goodness had not
182 Unic, 13 | great perfection. For the Lord never fails us and the fault
183 Unic, 13 | whereas, now that the Lord has made me stronger in
184 Unic, 13 | have patience until the Lord gives them occupation and
185 Unic, 13 | upon the binding of the Lord to the Column. The mind
186 Unic, 13 | and safe road until the Lord leads us to other methods,
187 Unic, 13 | self-knowledge, yet the Lord was already granting her
188 Unic, 13 | other matters which the Lord sets before it, and we are
189 Unic, 13 | finds the right one, for the Lord will give him one if his
190 Unic, 13 | Blessed be Thou, Lord, Who has made me so incompetent
191 Unic, 13 | more. May it please the Lord to keep them in His hand
192 Unic, 13 | Reverence will know. May the Lord grant me always to succeed
193 Unic, 14 | of prayer, in which the Lord grants the soul experience
194 Unic, 14 | which is ordained by the Lord of the garden. By using
195 Unic, 14 | loves. Oh, my Jesus and Lord, how much Thy love now means
196 Unic, 14 | enjoying. If this be the Lord's pleasure, it throws them
197 Unic, 14 | blessings and favours which the Lord gives in this state makes
198 Unic, 14 | acquire but little if the Lord is not pleased to bestow
199 Unic, 14 | so; but this Emperor and Lord of ours desires us now to
200 Unic, 14 | this) and how it is now the Lord's will that the soul should
201 Unic, 14 | fundamental matter, and, when the Lord begins to grant these favours,
202 Unic, 14 | wish very much that the Lord would help me to set forth
203 Unic, 14 | more time, for, when the Lord gives inspiration, one can
204 Unic, 14 | a beginner (and may the Lord grant that I have in fact
205 Unic, 14 | soul as a garden and of the Lord as walking in it. I would
206 Unic, 14 | suffers many trials, for the Lord wants the poor gardener
207 Unic, 14 | O my Lord and my Good! I cannot say
208 Unic, 14 | delight of soul that Thou, Lord, shouldst wish to be with
209 Unic, 14 | children of men.123 O my Lord! What is this? Whenever
210 Unic, 14 | astray. Is it possible, Lord, that there can be a soul
211 Unic, 14 | it please Thy goodness, Lord, that I may be alone in
212 Unic, 14 | long as I am in myself, my Lord, and without Thee, I can
213 Unic, 14 | as before. Permit it not, Lord. Let it not be Thy will
214 Unic, 15 | than the time for which the Lord is pleased that it shall
215 Unic, 15 | of the favours which the Lord has granted it, and how
216 Unic, 15 | should have done had not the Lord's mercy saved me. For, as
217 Unic, 15 | And so, for love of the Lord, I beg the souls whom His
218 Unic, 15 | they are doing, and the Lord will grant them repentance
219 Unic, 15 | spark of true love for the Lord which He begins to enkindle
220 Unic, 15 | with all humility say: "Lord, what can I do here? What
221 Unic, 15 | the servant to do with her Lord? What has earth to do with
222 Unic, 15 | they will use it in the Lord's service and will esteem
223 Unic, 15 | in spiritual matters the Lord is pleased that such diminution
224 Unic, 15 | way of the Cross. For the Lord Himself showed us this way
225 Unic, 15 | there is one sign that the Lord has been with them -- namely,
226 Unic, 15 | humility and confusion; for the Lord Himself reveals these to
227 Unic, 15 | given us in this way by the Lord. This produces a confusion
228 Unic, 15 | that souls which by the Lord's goodness reach this point
229 Unic, 16 | these great favours of the Lord. This chapter is well calculated
230 Unic, 16 | directing of it. But the Lord is now pleased to help the
231 Unic, 16 | perhaps six, years since the Lord granted me this prayer in
232 Unic, 16 | I had communicated, the Lord granted me this prayer,
233 Unic, 16 | at last. Blessed be the Lord, Who has given me this consolation!~
234 Unic, 16 | of God, but, unless the Lord Himself puts order into
235 Unic, 16 | that it might praise the Lord. It utters a thousand holy
236 Unic, 16 | delectable to endure for her Lord's sake? She sees clearly
237 Unic, 16 | kind of rejoicing which the Lord desires a soul to experience
238 Unic, 16 | exile. Blessed be Thou, Lord, for ever; let all things
239 Unic, 16 | O my true Lord and Glory, what a cross --
240 Unic, 16 | bounds of reason when the Lord takes me out of myself.
241 Unic, 16 | which we obtain from the Lord; and there is not a slave
242 Unic, 16 | our life is over. May the Lord give us His help to this
243 Unic, 17 | it is given wholly to the Lord; it can cease to worry altogether.
244 Unic, 17 | what a good gardener the Lord is making, and to find that
245 Unic, 17 | such a way that, if the Lord wills, the soul can obtain
246 Unic, 17 | by the flowers. It is the Lord's will that these shall
247 Unic, 17 | save to consent that the Lord shall grant it favours and
248 Unic, 17 | will be very glad, if the Lord grants them all to you (
249 Unic, 17 | it is one favour that the Lord should grant this favour;
250 Unic, 17 | to walk in the way of the Lord with the greater courage,
251 Unic, 17 | cannot, should praise the Lord because His Majesty has
252 Unic, 17 | and often I beseech the Lord, if He must upset me so
253 Unic, 17 | Jacob bore with Lia, for the Lord is showing us an exceeding
254 Unic, 17 | said. It seems that the Lord has been pleased to describe
255 Unic, 18 | dignity conferred by the Lord upon the soul in this state.
256 Unic, 18 | through our merits but by the Lord's goodness. Let it be read
257 Unic, 18 | May the Lord teach me words in which
258 Unic, 18 | things becoming one. O my Lord, how good Thou art! Blessed
259 Unic, 18 | magnanimity. In a word, my Lord, it is a bounty and a magnanimity
260 Unic, 18 | am often wont to exclaim "Lord, consider what Thou art
261 Unic, 18 | jewels. For it seems, my Lord, that men have an excuse
262 Unic, 18 | buried. It is not Thy wont, Lord, to do such great things
263 Unic, 18 | want of humility; for the Lord well knows what is fitting
264 Unic, 18 | may both be the same, the Lord works differently in them,
265 Unic, 18 | kinds of favour from the Lord. Anyone who has attained
266 Unic, 18 | But I believe that the Lord will help me in this, since
267 Unic, 18 | Communion. Blessed be the Lord, Who thus helps the ignorant!
268 Unic, 18 | experiences in prayer which the Lord has granted to this miserable
269 Unic, 18 | these matters with me, the Lord will help His servant to
270 Unic, 18 | would be able to have if the Lord never ceased to send it
271 Unic, 18 | prayer succeeds another, the Lord takes this little bird and
272 Unic, 18 | any ill effects after the Lord has granted me this favour,
273 Unic, 18 | during that time, when the Lord said these words to me: "
274 Unic, 18 | Heaven, this greatest of the Lord's favours, leaves the greatest
275 Unic, 19 | greater fruition of the Lord. It is alone with Him: what
276 Unic, 19 | now. Blessed be Thou, my Lord, Who from such filthy slime
277 Unic, 19 | becomes careless, and the Lord is not pleased, out of His
278 Unic, 19 | point as this to which the Lord has brought them, they should
279 Unic, 19 | of the favours which the Lord has granted me, albeit I
280 Unic, 19 | believed: I beseech the Lord that His Majesty may be
281 Unic, 19 | it is amazed -- and who, Lord of my soul, can be other
282 Unic, 19 | granted me. Do Thou, my Lord, make my tears of some efficacy.
283 Unic, 19 | myself. For I used to wonder, Lord, why Thou didst pass by
284 Unic, 19 | nevertheless Thou knowest, my Lord, that I would often cry
285 Unic, 19 | reason for doing so. This, Lord, was after Thou of Thy goodness
286 Unic, 19 | displeasure; and as I did this, Lord, Thou didst begin to open
287 Unic, 19 | make me doubt that Thou, my Lord, hast all good things, or
288 Unic, 19 | was, Thou didst answer me, Lord, saying "Serve thou Me,
289 Unic, 19 | to say. May it please the Lord that any foolishness I talk
290 Unic, 19 | terribly blind I was! Where, my Lord, did I think I could find
291 Unic, 19 | practice. Blessed be Thou, Lord, Who didst thus succour
292 Unic, 19 | though I importuned the Lord, often with tears, I was
293 Unic, 19 | not cease to offend the Lord, but, as I had not lost
294 Unic, 19 | and for the love of the Lord let it be carefully noted)
295 Unic, 19 | earth, and what love the Lord is showing it, there is
296 Unic, 19 | it -- for the love of the Lord, let it look to it -- lest
297 Unic, 20 | comes to the soul which the Lord, of His goodness, brings
298 Unic, 20 | interior and exterior. May the Lord explain this, as He has
299 Unic, 20 | in a practical way, the Lord gathers up the soul, just (
300 Unic, 20 | when I have felt that the Lord was going to enrapture me (
301 Unic, 20 | observed. I besought the Lord earnestly not to grant me
302 Unic, 20 | continue it against the Lord's will avails very little,
303 Unic, 20 | the manifestation of the Lord's mighty power: as we are
304 Unic, 20 | spirit, in this favour the Lord is pleased that it should
305 Unic, 20 | practised prayer and the Lord granted me such great consolations
306 Unic, 20 | used to experience when the Lord was pleased to grant me
307 Unic, 20 | granted that experience by the Lord in a higher degree): Vigilavi,
308 Unic, 20 | to me to think that the Lord had brought it to my mind
309 Unic, 20 | like this, it must be the Lord's will to end them by putting
310 Unic, 20 | and solitude, wherein the Lord would comfort me, is habitually
311 Unic, 20 | change this favour which the Lord is bestowing upon me (for
312 Unic, 20 | this state, in which the Lord is now keeping me, has followed
313 Unic, 20 | bestowed upon me by the Lord.~
314 Unic, 20 | almost always am when the Lord bestows a favour upon me,
315 Unic, 20 | deserved it. Blessed be the Lord, Who is so good! Amen.~
316 Unic, 20 | or, to put it better, the Lord engulfs it in Himself --
317 Unic, 20 | suspension, which is the Lord's will. For the most part
318 Unic, 20 | therefore, to whom the Lord grants this favour must
319 Unic, 20 | very place, to whom the Lord is granting these favours;
320 Unic, 20 | will understand it, for the Lord has already given you experience
321 Unic, 20 | sometimes, as I say, the Lord is pleased that the body
322 Unic, 20 | this that it prays to the Lord, giving Him the keys of
323 Unic, 20 | nothing save the will of the Lord; he wants to be neither
324 Unic, 20(158)| any will save that of Our Lord," and the change was followed
325 Unic, 20 | content with serving the Lord a little but must do so
326 Unic, 20 | from the soul, but from the Lord, to Whom the soul has given
327 Unic, 20 | soul brought hither by the Lord, which can look upon everything
328 Unic, 20 | others to do so.164 It is the Lord of the garden, and not the
329 Unic, 21 | and the light which the Lord sheds for it on the world'
330 Unic, 21 | Blessed is the soul which the Lord brings to an understanding
331 Unic, 21 | beneath him to consider the Lord's honour -- kings will always
332 Unic, 21 | O Lord, if Thou wert to give me
333 Unic, 21 | as I can do no more, my Lord, I turn to Thee, to beg
334 Unic, 21 | Thee; do Thou ordain it, Lord, according to Thy pleasure,
335 Unic, 21 | return. Cost what it may, Lord, permit me not to come into
336 Unic, 21 | desire. Well do I know, my Lord, of how little I am capable.
337 Unic, 21 | like myself, to whom the Lord has given this light, but
338 Unic, 21 | one of these raptures, the Lord can work in the soul in
339 Unic, 21 | will ever believe what the Lord bestows on the soul here;
340 Unic, 21 | and with the help of the Lord, attain to detachment and
341 Unic, 21 | of raptures, in which the Lord works without our collaboration
342 Unic, 21 | troubles ceased, and the Lord gave me strength to escape
343 Unic, 21 | From the time when the Lord began to grant me the favour
344 Unic, 21 | it is all the work of the Lord. I think, therefore, that
345 Unic, 21 | that souls on whom the Lord bestows these favours, and
346 Unic, 21 | realizing that all is due to the Lord Himself and in no wise to
347 Unic, 21 | souls that are chosen by the Lord to profit others, though
348 Unic, 21 | themselves. For, when the Lord brings a soul to this state,
349 Unic, 21 | of the reward which the Lord has prepared for those who
350 Unic, 22 | are not so uplifted by the Lord, and how the path leading
351 Unic, 22 | work wrought in it by the Lord is entirely supernatural,
352 Unic, 22 | They quote the words of the Lord on this subject to the Apostles
353 Unic, 22(171)| even the mystery of Our Lord's Incarnation, should be
354 Unic, 22 | found out later that, if the Lord had not taught me, I could
355 Unic, 22 | seemed to me a hindrance. O Lord of my soul and my Good,
356 Unic, 22 | recently" I mean before the Lord granted me these favours --
357 Unic, 22 | continually rejoicing in the Lord. Especially when communicating,
358 Unic, 22 | like. Is it possible, my Lord, that for so much as an
359 Unic, 22 | a very bad way until the Lord gave it light: all the joys
360 Unic, 22 | abundantly rewarded if the Lord allows him to stand with
361 Unic, 22 | for me to leave Thee, my Lord, in the hope that I might
362 Unic, 22 | gain more! How mistaken, Lord, was the path I followed!
363 Unic, 22 | this by experience: the Lord has told it me. I have seen
364 Unic, 22 | safe. It is through this Lord of ours that all blessings
365 Unic, 22 | with the grace which the Lord bestows on every soul: into
366 Unic, 22 | always before us -- and the Lord grant it be always! -- this
367 Unic, 22 | part to rise before the Lord raises it, a dissatisfaction
368 Unic, 22 | laboured with Martha. When the Lord wishes one to be Mary, there
369 Unic, 22 | to embrace the Cross. The Lord was deprived of all consolation;
370 Unic, 22 | Peter: "Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man."175
371 Unic, 22 | But it is the Lord's will that we should know
372 Unic, 22 | own love, for, if once the Lord grants us the favour of
373 Unic, 22 | this. How is it, when the Lord begins to grant a soul such
374 Unic, 22 | sublimer they are -- when the Lord might leave the soul completely
375 Unic, 22 | time goes on, that the same Lord leaves it perfect in the
376 Unic, 22 | itself for this, but that the Lord gradually trains it, and
377 Unic, 22 | and how good a Friend! Oh, Lord of my soul, if only one
378 Unic, 22 | It is not Thy will, Lord, that this should be so,
379 Unic, 22 | necessary in everything. May the Lord give us these of His goodness.~
380 Unic, 23 | and habits. Praised be the Lord, Who has delivered me from
381 Unic, 23 | myself more to prayer, the Lord began to bestow favors upon
382 Unic, 23 | raise me up. Blessed be the Lord that, in the end, the first
383 Unic, 23 | provided I strove to please the Lord and not to offend Him --
384 Unic, 23 | goodness and holy life the Lord was beginning to make known
385 Unic, 23 | believe, was not theirs: the Lord permitted it so that I might
386 Unic, 23 | be awaited, at which the Lord will help them as He has
387 Unic, 23 | which it seemed as if the Lord had put into my hands, those
388 Unic, 23 | know, he asked me, that the Lord was not desirous of using
389 Unic, 23 | was prophesying what the Lord afterwards did with me)?
390 Unic, 23 | comforted and strengthened. The Lord helped us both, enabled
391 Unic, 23 | this day. Praised be the Lord, Who has given me grace
392 Unic, 24 | even superficially, for the Lord was already beginning to
393 Unic, 24 | the more completely the Lord enveloped me in that sweetness
394 Unic, 24 | caused me distress. The Lord, however, was much more
395 Unic, 24 | seemed to me to come from the Lord, and I thanked him for giving
396 Unic, 24 | prayed earnestly that the Lord would hold me by His hand,
397 Unic, 24 | the Passion, and, if the Lord should then transport my
398 Unic, 24 | the Company. It was the Lord's good pleasure that I should
399 Unic, 24 | and then, beseeching the Lord that He would help me to
400 Unic, 24 | the first time that the Lord had granted me the favour
401 Unic, 24 | He had to wait until the Lord took it in hand, as He did.
402 Unic, 24 | appear unseemly. But now the Lord set me free and gave me
403 Unic, 24 | is almighty and the true Lord of all, it caused me no
404 Unic, 25 | described197 on which the Lord granted me this favour,
405 Unic, 25 | reveals Himself as our true Lord. I have long experience
406 Unic, 25 | nothing, whereas, when the Lord speaks, the words are accompanied
407 Unic, 25 | turmoil and unrest, the Lord frees it as with His own
408 Unic, 25 | short, I do not think the Lord leaves it freedom for anything.
409 Unic, 25 | it all fulfilled. For the Lord impresses His words upon
410 Unic, 25 | immediately been warned by the Lord that the locution came from
411 Unic, 25 | other occasions when the Lord has allowed me to be exposed
412 Unic, 25 | in this respect (as the Lord makes the soul to whom He
413 Unic, 25 | immediately reassured whenever the Lord bestowed any favour upon
414 Unic, 25 | made this petition to the Lord.~
415 Unic, 25 | solitude in prayer, the Lord caused me to be recollected
416 Unic, 25 | any comfort for me: the Lord permitted my fears of a
417 Unic, 25 | me great suffering. O my Lord, how true a Friend Thou
418 Unic, 25 | all things praise Thee, Lord of the world. Oh, if someone
419 Unic, 25 | All things fail, but Thou, Lord of them all, failest never.
420 Unic, 25 | those who love Thee. O my Lord, how delicately and skilfully
421 Unic, 25 | save Thee! Thou seemest, Lord, to give severe tests to
422 Unic, 25 | knows them! All these, my Lord, I lack, but if Thou forsakest
423 Unic, 25 | me, but fail Thou me not, Lord, for I have already experience
424 Unic, 25(201)| might render: "All these, my Lord, I lack, but . . . Thou
425 Unic, 25 | good God! Oh, what a good Lord! What a powerful Lord! He
426 Unic, 25 | good Lord! What a powerful Lord! He gives not only counsel
427 Unic, 25 | how when a storm arose the Lord used to command the winds
428 Unic, 25 | this? I desire to serve the Lord; I aim at nothing else than
429 Unic, 25 | now," I went on, "if this Lord is powerful, as I see He
430 Unic, 25 | who am a servant of this Lord and King? How can I fail
431 Unic, 25 | I am a servant of the Lord and I want to see what you
432 Unic, 25 | bestowed upon me by the Lord of all, so that they are
433 Unic, 25 | move a finger unless the Lord permits it. Whatever are
434 Unic, 25 | bear it. Blessed be the Lord, Who has been of such real
435 Unic, 26 | This courage which the Lord gave me for my fight with
436 Unic, 26 | Who is all-powerful and a Lord so great that He can do
437 Unic, 26 | my peace of mind. But the Lord said to me: Why dost thou
438 Unic, 26 | remedy. At other times the Lord recalls my past sins to
439 Unic, 26 | reap great benefit, as the Lord has often told me. I mean
440 Unic, 26 | favours granted us by the Lord, to a confessor who is a
441 Unic, 26 | bent to obedience. Once the Lord told me that I was not obeying
442 Unic, 26 | Whenever the Lord gave me some command in
443 Unic, 26 | something different, the Lord Himself would speak to me
444 Unic, 26 | only in Latin. Then the Lord said to me: "Be not distressed,
445 Unic, 26 | for recollection, and the Lord showed me so much love and
446 Unic, 26 | unforgettable! Who can see the Lord covered with wounds and
447 Unic, 26 | realizing how much we owe to the Lord for having so often delivered
448 Unic, 26 | May it have pleased the Lord to enable me to make clear
449 Unic, 26 | so speak of it. May the Lord grant me duly to carry out
450 Unic, 27 | another way in which the Lord teaches the soul and in
451 Unic, 27 | imaginary, granted her by the Lord. This chapter should be
452 Unic, 27 | being made for me that the Lord would lead me by another
453 Unic, 27 | other Saints so that the Lord might show me the truth --
454 Unic, 27 | have described -- that the Lord would either lead me by
455 Unic, 27 | which, as I have said, the Lord was giving me were very
456 Unic, 27 | seems quite impossible. The Lord is pleased that this knowledge
457 Unic, 27 | desire to do so, unless the Lord teaches it to us by experience.
458 Unic, 27 | to us by experience. The Lord introduces into the inmost
459 Unic, 27 | what I understand, when the Lord expounds to me some vision
460 Unic, 27 | seems to be the work of the Lord. It is as if food has been
461 Unic, 27 | a few of those which the Lord has granted me; I shall
462 Unic, 27 | stop anyone to whom the Lord gives them from thinking
463 Unic, 27 | and the road by which the Lord has led me, for that is
464 Unic, 27 | seems to me to be that the Lord's will is for the soul to
465 Unic, 27 | knew for certain till the Lord in His goodness willed me
466 Unic, 27 | soul! After this sight, Lord, may they never more accustom
467 Unic, 27 | soul's feelings when the Lord grants it an understanding
468 Unic, 27 | are these joys that the Lord gives? Only a single drop
469 Unic, 27 | May it please the Lord to bring me to a state in
470 Unic, 27 | should be held, for the Lord turns any such scandals
471 Unic, 27 | world and these ways the Lord teaches to those in whom
472 Unic, 27 | his love for me, for the Lord was pleased to give him
473 Unic, 27(220)| go into the house of the Lord."~
474 Unic, 27 | his death it has been the Lord's good pleasure that I should
475 Unic, 27 | when he was on earth. The Lord once told me that no one
476 Unic, 27 | so that he should ask the Lord for them I have seen granted.
477 Unic, 27 | against myself. May the Lord forgive me for anything
478 Unic, 28 | great favours which the Lord bestowed upon her, and of
479 Unic, 28 | was short-lived, for the Lord reassured me. One day, when
480 Unic, 28 | when I was at prayer, the Lord was pleased to reveal to
481 Unic, 28 | experience that I have when the Lord is beginning to grant me
482 Unic, 28 | could not understand why the Lord revealed Himself gradually
483 Unic, 28 | this, the compassionate Lord prepared me for it by degrees.~
484 Unic, 28 | torturing myself. But the Lord made such haste to grant
485 Unic, 28 | are open or closed: if the Lord is pleased for us to see
486 Unic, 28 | of the way in which the Lord reveals Himself through
487 Unic, 28 | learned men to explain. The Lord has not been pleased to
488 Unic, 28 | discovered by experience. How the Lord effects it, Your Reverence
489 Unic, 28 | once can doubt it is the Lord Himself; this is especially
490 Unic, 28 | Himself so completely as the Lord of that inn, the soul, that
491 Unic, 28 | How completely art Thou Lord of the whole world, and
492 Unic, 28 | shows the soul that to be Lord of this is nothing for Thee.~
493 Unic, 28 | confounded. I mean that, when the Lord is pleased to reveal to
494 Unic, 28 | impossible to endure, unless the Lord were pleased to help the
495 Unic, 28 | forget these -- save when the Lord is pleased for the soul
496 Unic, 28 | attempted to present the Lord Himself to me in this way,
497 Unic, 28 | comparisons as I could and as the Lord revealed to my understanding.
498 Unic, 28 | his own opinion, and the Lord was not leading him by this
499 Unic, 28 | trying to do my soul, the Lord would bring good. He did
500 Unic, 28 | many occasions when the Lord allowed me to be harshly