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1 Pref, 2 | when we might be saying "God! God!" and making the devil
2 Pref, 2 | we might be saying "God! God!" and making the devil tremble.
3 Pref, 2 | Conceptions of the Love of God, creeps a delightfully shrewd
4 Pref, 2(9) | Conceptions of the Love of God, Chap. II (Vol. II, p. 375).~
5 Pref, 2 | versions of the Breviary: "God will have accepted their
6 Pref, 2 | From foolish devotions may God deliver us.17~
7 Pref, 2 | colloquialisms. Even in talking with God, she tells us, she has a "
8 Pref, 2 | distance that separates it from God.28~
9 Pref, 2 | unhappiness in order to serve God, it would serve me as a
10 Pref, 2 | translated literally, as "God help me!" Occasionally where
11 Pref, 2 | meaning, it becomes "Oh, God!", "Dear God!" or even "
12 Pref, 2 | becomes "Oh, God!", "Dear God!" or even "Dear me!" The
13 Outl, 0 | Exclamations of the Soul to God is probably 1569. Cf. Vol.
14 Intr, 0 | every aim but the quest for God and then enabled her to
15 Intr, 0 | her pen. "For the love of God," she once exclaimed, when
16 Intr, 0 | the which notes I hope in God will speedily be printed
17 Intr, 0 | Conceptions of the Love of God, and the Exclamations of
18 Intr, 0 | Exclamations of the Soul to God, the two loveliest of St.
19 Unic, 1 | were virtuous and feared God, and also that the Lord
20 Unic, 1 | them, by the goodness of God, resembled their parents
21 Unic, 1 | before I began to offend God, I think there was some
22 Unic, 1 | hindered me from serving God in any way.~
23 Unic, 1 | suffered by saintly women for God's sake, I used to think
24 Unic, 1 | purchased the fruition of God very cheaply; and I had
25 Unic, 1 | not out of any love for God of which I was conscious,
26 Unic, 1 | our bread for the love of God, so that they might behead
27 Unic, 1 | would put me to death for God's sake, we decided to become
28 Unic, 1 | devotion to remember how early God granted me what I lost by
29 Unic, 2 | wanted anyone to offend God because of me. This great
30 Unic, 2 | about this and I wish to God that he had been careful
31 Unic, 2 | think I had ever forsaken God by committing any mortal
32 Unic, 2 | sin, or lost my fear of God, though I was much more
33 Unic, 2 | sin against the honour of God, as my natural inclination
34 Unic, 2 | anyone to teach me to fear God, my soul would have grown
35 Unic, 2 | Later, when the fear of God had entirely left me, I
36 Unic, 2 | both to my honour and to God.~
37 Unic, 2 | brothers to it. From all this God delivered me, in such a
38 Unic, 2 | Who sees all things. O my God, what harm is done in the
39 Unic, 2 | and even when I offended God I never ceased to be sorely
40 Unic, 2 | realized what a great favour God does to those whom He places
41 Unic, 2 | respects I was not offending God. There was a nun who slept
42 Unic, 3 | for she spoke well about God and was very discreet and
43 Unic, 3 | the nuns to commend me to God and pray that He would bring
44 Unic, 3 | anxious not to be a nun, for God had not as yet been pleased
45 Unic, 3 | believe he is now rejoicing in God. He wanted me to stay with
46 Unic, 3 | conversation was ordinarily about God and the vanity of the world.
47 Unic, 3 | often very indiscreet. O God, in how many ways did His
48 Unic, 3 | my heart by the words of God, both as read and as heard,
49 Unic, 4 | I thought I could serve God better or which my father
50 Unic, 4 | for, as I had no love of God to subdue my love for my
51 Unic, 4 | me even to this day, and God converted the aridity of
52 Unic, 4 | resolving to do a thing for God's sake alone, it is His
53 Unic, 4 | a life of detachment for God's sake alone, there is no
54 Unic, 4 | were so many servants of God from whom I might take example
55 Unic, 4 | better. It would seem, my God, as if I had promised to
56 Unic, 4 | do not think I offended God very much during that time.
57 Unic, 4 | running the risk of offending God.~
58 Unic, 4 | not so free from offending God as the book said one should
59 Unic, 4 | mortal sin -- and would to God I had always been so! But
60 Unic, 4 | whole of my recreation. For God had not given me talents
61 Unic, 4 | world, on his duties to God, on God's great sufferings
62 Unic, 4 | on his duties to God, on God's great sufferings and on
63 Unic, 4 | believe that, by the help of God, this would have been the
64 Unic, 4 | in the days when I served God, they became very profitable
65 Unic, 4 | reflected with amazement upon God's great goodness and my
66 Unic, 5 | of her patience. I begged God that He would send me any
67 Unic, 5 | I think, such love for God as I have had since I began
68 Unic, 5 | unsettle my soul, although God turned this into a great
69 Unic, 5 | for I see clearly that in God's sight I have no excuse;
70 Unic, 5 | from doing them. I believe God permitted these confessors
71 Unic, 5 | any grave offence against God and he assured me that it
72 Unic, 5 | that time, full of love for God as I was, my greatest delight
73 Unic, 5 | militates against loyalty to God! This is a bewildering folly
74 Unic, 5 | bewilders me. For we owe to God all the good that men show
75 Unic, 5 | all shame in the sight of God, there is nothing whatever
76 Unic, 5 | used to speak to him about God. This must have done something
77 Unic, 5 | wearied of giving thanks to God for having granted him light.
78 Unic, 5 | died. He had been active in God's service and I never thought
79 Unic, 5 | recourse to the presence of God, he might have committed
80 Unic, 5 | my conversation was with God. I had continually in mind
81 Unic, 5 | prayers were made for me to God. Blessed be He Who was pleased
82 Unic, 5 | only to my having offended God, which might have sufficed
83 Unic, 5 | conscious of having offended God. There is one grace, among
84 Unic, 5 | beg him, for the love of God, to excuse none of my faults,
85 Unic, 5 | reveal the magnificence of God and His long-suffering to
86 Unic, 6 | hands and knees, I praised God. All this I bore with great
87 Unic, 6 | resigned to the will of God, even if He had left me
88 Unic, 6 | talked a great deal about God, in such a way that all
89 Unic, 6 | received the grace which God had granted me through prayer,
90 Unic, 6 | give a strict account to God for the bad example which
91 Unic, 6 | speaking and conversing about God; if I found anyone with
92 Unic, 6 | penitent at having offended God; and I remember that often
93 Unic, 6 | these tokens of the fear of God came to me in prayer. The
94 Unic, 6 | respect to mortal sin. O God, how I longed for health
95 Unic, 6 | believed that I should serve God much better if I recovered
96 Unic, 6 | the great favours which God has bestowed on me through
97 Unic, 6 | which he can obtain from God. I have never known anyone
98 Unic, 6 | only beg, for the love of God, that anyone who does not
99 Unic, 6 | receiving so many favours from God, and after His Majesty had
100 Unic, 7 | was ashamed to return to God and to approach Him in the
101 Unic, 7 | hold so much converse with God, since I deserved to be
102 Unic, 7 | hypocrisy -- glory be to God! -- I do not remember having
103 Unic, 7 | in this way. Perhaps, if God had permitted me to be tempted
104 Unic, 7 | great deal, speaking about God, liking to have pictures
105 Unic, 7 | if they are to be saved. God grant that they may not
106 Unic, 7 | devoutly inclined -- and God grant that their inclinations
107 Unic, 7 | which they would have with God than in speaking of other
108 Unic, 7 | to my fancy but came from God. However, just because the
109 Unic, 7 | this either. O greatness of God! With what care and compassion
110 Unic, 7 | and was a great servant of God and devoted to the Rule
111 Unic, 7 | and the great goodness of God and to show how by this
112 Unic, 7 | speaking of the things of God.~
113 Unic, 7 | prayer, if I had offended God one day, I would recollect
114 Unic, 7 | was still communing with God as I had been doing before.
115 Unic, 7 | that others should serve God. And now that I was no longer
116 Unic, 7 | charged us to commend him to God, to pray for mercy upon
117 Unic, 7 | mercy upon him and to serve God always, remembering how
118 Unic, 7 | was that he had not served God better: he would have liked
119 Unic, 7 | putting his soul right with God.~
120 Unic, 7 | and had a great fear of God, was of the very greatest
121 Unic, 7 | faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other,
122 Unic, 7 | world. All the things of God gave me great pleasure,
123 Unic, 7 | Oh, God help me! If only I could
124 Unic, 7 | during these years from which God delivered me, and tell how
125 Unic, 7 | any knowledge or love of God. We can deduce our own unworthiness
126 Unic, 7 | was not in the sight of God. For this reason I would
127 Unic, 7 | beginning to love and serve God in earnest should not be
128 Unic, 7 | to try to love and please God to hide their good desires,
129 Unic, 7 | committed in this way against God are published openly.~
130 Unic, 7 | pertaining to the service of God that we must all back each
131 Unic, 7 | begins to devote himself to God, there are so many to speak
132 Unic, 7 | himself but to believe that God will help him in dealing
133 Unic, 7 | and I praise the mercy of God, Who alone gave me His hand.
134 Unic, 8 | occasions on which I failed God during this period through
135 Unic, 8 | I had neither any joy in God nor any pleasure in the
136 Unic, 8 | remembrance of what I owed to God; when I was with God, I
137 Unic, 8 | to God; when I was with God, I grew restless because
138 Unic, 8 | always in the presence of God, it seems to me that those
139 Unic, 8 | whereas others may be in God's presence for several days
140 Unic, 8 | was ill, I was nearer to God; and I contrived that the
141 Unic, 8 | having relations both with God and with the world. During
142 Unic, 8 | believe I have been serving God and have come to know the
143 Unic, 8 | already said, to make evident God's mercy and my own ingratitude.
144 Unic, 8 | show what great blessings God grants to a soul when He
145 Unic, 8 | and good men. Glory be to God for this! If it were not
146 Unic, 8 | given to the perfect by God, yet he will gradually gain
147 Unic, 8 | I hope in the mercy of God, Whom no one has ever taken
148 Unic, 8(100)| littleness and the greatness of God.]~
149 Unic, 8 | infinite goodness of my God! It is thus that I seem
150 Unic, 8 | in which I have offended God and of all I owe Him and
151 Unic, 8 | courage, and it is clear that God has given me much more than
152 Unic, 8 | for those who do not serve God, but offend Him, and if
153 Unic, 8 | serve and desire to serve God give it up? Really I cannot
154 Unic, 8 | and to shut the door upon God so that He shall not give
155 Unic, 8 | people, for they are serving God at great cost to themselves.
156 Unic, 8 | come to us? And yet we wish God to grant us great favours!~
157 Unic, 8 | period, when, by the grace of God, I was withdrawing farther
158 Unic, 8 | it had from anyone save God, and the numerous opportunities
159 Unic, 8 | refreshment to me. To speak of God, or to listen to others
160 Unic, 8 | ourselves and fix it all upon God. I wanted to live, for I
161 Unic, 9 | placing all my confidence in God. I believe I told Him then
162 Unic, 9 | would commend myself to God so as to sleep well, I used
163 Unic, 9 | Oh, God help me! How amazed I am
164 Unic, 9 | to give myself wholly to God. When I started to read
165 Unic, 9 | distress and affliction. Dear God, what a soul suffers and
166 Unic, 9 | such a state of torment. God be praised, Who gave me
167 Unic, 9 | done, what true love of God really means. I think I
168 Unic, 9 | devotion by not offending God and by being ready and determined
169 Unic, 9 | abandon, but, as I say, God kept on helping me to turn
170 Unic, 10 | consciousness of the presence of God, of such a kind that I could
171 Unic, 10 | all it can understand; for God wills it to realize that
172 Unic, 10 | but entirely the gift of God. It seems, however, that
173 Unic, 10 | lowliness and our ingratitude to God, on the great things that
174 Unic, 10 | early stages of growth and God grants it this favour, it
175 Unic, 10 | whatever can be done without God), cannot, I think, be purchased
176 Unic, 10 | evidence that we are pleasing God? Let anyone, then, who has
177 Unic, 10 | far give great praise to God and recognize how much he
178 Unic, 10 | how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for
179 Unic, 10 | fortitude to resist it: I know God will do this if we walk
180 Unic, 10 | remember that it is from God that we have our being,
181 Unic, 10 | which some servants of God have already received, such
182 Unic, 10 | themselves as still more in God's debt and under still greater
183 Unic, 10 | realize that he is favoured by God should have the courage
184 Unic, 10 | earnest of the love which God bears him and also a living
185 Unic, 10 | This I beg for the love of God. The authority of persons
186 Unic, 10 | account of the favours which God grants me in prayer), if
187 Unic, 11 | we do not learn to love God perfectly in a short time.
188 Unic, 11 | employ itself in the love of God, hast Thou been pleased
189 Unic, 11 | possession of this true love of God, it brings all blessings
190 Unic, 11 | giving ourselves wholly to God that we do not prepare ourselves
191 Unic, 11 | But we think we are giving God everything, whereas what
192 Unic, 11 | we have surrendered it to God and we try to seize it again,
193 Unic, 11 | way of seeking the love of God is this! We expect great
194 Unic, 11 | with all his might. For God denies Himself to no one
195 Unic, 11 | more. If by the help of God the beginner strives to
196 Unic, 11 | take many others with him: God treats him like a good captain,
197 Unic, 11 | deal, and much help from God.~
198 Unic, 11 | to do so. We have now, by God's help, like good gardeners,
199 Unic, 11 | sincerely resolved to serve God). Then they have to endeavour
200 Unic, 11 | course with the help of God, for without that, as is
201 Unic, 11 | water from the well -- and God grant there may be water
202 Unic, 11 | to water the flowers. And God is so good that when, for
203 Unic, 11 | well, I used to think that God was granting me a favour.
204 Unic, 11 | that, even in this life, God does not fail to recompense
205 Unic, 11 | alone and to commune with God, and abandon the pastimes
206 Unic, 11 | foundation.110 Yes, love for God does not consist in shedding
207 Unic, 11 | this is the way in which God is leading me now, so that
208 Unic, 11 | when I hear servants of God, men of weight, learning
209 Unic, 11 | making such a fuss because God is not giving them devotion,
210 Unic, 11 | I do not mean that, when God gives them such a thing,
211 Unic, 11 | for a soul which loves God has often the exceeding
212 Unic, 11 | service for the love of God, so that on many other occasions
213 Unic, 11 | fitting for us; but let God be served in all things.
214 Unic, 11 | there, for at such a time God's will is that we should
215 Unic, 12 | how far, with the help of God, we can advance by ourselves
216 Unic, 12 | attained unless it be given by God. It is best for a soul which
217 Unic, 12 | resolution to do great things for God and it can awaken its own
218 Unic, 12 | called The Art of sensing God,112 which is very good and
219 Unic, 12 | humility, the nearer we come to God, the greater must be the
220 Unic, 12 | wish to rise higher, for God is already doing more for
221 Unic, 12 | high things of Heaven or of God, and of the wonders which
222 Unic, 12 | which are in Heaven, and of God's great wisdom. I never
223 Unic, 12 | thinking of earthly things God granted me grace to understand
224 Unic, 12 | unless they are raised by God I am using the language
225 Unic, 12 | power of working, because God suspends it, as I shall
226 Unic, 12 | explain further by and by if God grants me His help for that
227 Unic, 12 | for a long time, though God was teaching me, I could
228 Unic, 12 | but only about vanities), God suddenly gave me a completely
229 Unic, 13 | involve offenses against God. This is most necessary
230 Unic, 13 | should believe that, with God's help, if we make continual
231 Unic, 13 | everything is possible in God:113 I realized quite well
232 Unic, 13 | reflect that, with the help of God, we can strive to have a
233 Unic, 13 | so little confidence in God, and so much love for ourselves,
234 Unic, 13 | this world nor fruition of God in the world to come. We
235 Unic, 13 | very little. For it pleased God to reveal to me this device
236 Unic, 13 | entire world there is only God and the soul;117 and this
237 Unic, 13(117)| though there were in it but God and thy soul, so that thy
238 Unic, 13 | solely from our desire that God should not be offended and
239 Unic, 13 | perfection and of great zeal for God. I am not referring to the
240 Unic, 13 | watching itself and pleasing God. This is most important.
241 Unic, 13 | shall begin to profit, by God's help (which is always
242 Unic, 13 | the power and greatness of God in the creatures, and the
243 Unic, 13 | From foolish devotions may God deliver us!~
244 Unic, 13 | they will do us good and God will show them what they
245 Unic, 13 | the world, let him praise God that he is able to choose
246 Unic, 13 | desire to succeed. I praise God greatly, and we women, and
247 Unic, 13 | desire to reap such benefits! God forbid it be so! I see these
248 Unic, 14 | itself to be imprisoned by God, as one who well knows itself
249 Unic, 14 | the well. The tears which God bestows here flow joyfully;
250 Unic, 14 | virtues spring -- namely, God. For His Majesty begins
251 Unic, 14 | not pleased to bestow it. God, of His greatness, desires
252 Unic, 14 | say this, as we know that God always understands us and
253 Unic, 14 | what it ought to do. If God leads it, as He led me,
254 Unic, 14 | proceed from the Spirit of God. Known, I mean, to the extent
255 Unic, 14 | if these things come from God, the devil may sometimes
256 Unic, 14 | of ours are availing if God withholds from us the water
257 Unic, 14 | ever! I beseech Thee, my God, that it may be so: may
258 Unic, 14 | going on to sing praises to God. And I think Your Reverence
259 Unic, 14 | different way; for my debt to God is much the greater, since
260 Unic, 15 | has such satisfaction in God that, although the other
261 Unic, 15 | the will is in union with God for as long as the recollection
262 Unic, 15 | little spark of love for God from being quenched.~
263 Unic, 15 | Most certainly it is not God; for, since His Majesty
264 Unic, 15 | that they will not offend God and fall into sin; anyone
265 Unic, 15 | proceeds from the Spirit of God and is not a pleasure bestowed
266 Unic, 15 | then, planted within us by God, small though it is, makes
267 Unic, 15 | that most ardent love of God with which His Majesty endows
268 Unic, 15 | is given to the soul by God as a sign or pledge that
269 Unic, 15 | great many of them, since God does not uphold us without
270 Unic, 15 | for it would seem that God is pleased to choose them
271 Unic, 15 | themselves -- and please God it be to themselves alone!~
272 Unic, 15 | cannot treat effectively with God by the might of our own
273 Unic, 15 | His goodness alone, why God should grant us so great
274 Unic, 15 | for, by the goodness of God, all of them will reach
275 Unic, 15 | and purely for the sake of God. In these periods of Quiet,
276 Unic, 15 | in our simplicity before God, Whose will is that the
277 Unic, 15 | comes from the Spirit of God or if, starting from devotion
278 Unic, 15 | from devotion given us by God, we have attained to it
279 Unic, 15 | prayer when it comes from God. It leaves neither light
280 Unic, 15 | which it now feels towards God and fixes its thoughts and
281 Unic, 15 | soul: thinking it to be of God, it will often come to its
282 Unic, 15 | comes from the Spirit of God, for this it will hold in
283 Unic, 15 | rejoice to give them up for God. The nearer are these souls
284 Unic, 15 | when from time to time God is pleased to prove them
285 Unic, 15 | subjected to the will of God that they would let themselves
286 Unic, 15 | to be free from offending God, when they see themselves
287 Unic, 15 | describe. When the Spirit of God is at work, there is no
288 Unic, 15 | us of this knowledge by God so that we may learn that
289 Unic, 15 | develop within us a love of God entirely devoid of self-interest
290 Unic, 15 | not possibly decide that God was not with it; only when
291 Unic, 15 | nevertheless, whose confidence that God is with them brings them
292 Unic, 15 | remembrance of the favour which God has granted it causes it
293 Unic, 15 | it causes it to turn to God despite all the punishments
294 Unic, 15 | now. I believe that, by God's help, I shall be able
295 Unic, 16 | the spirit in praises to God and to provide great consolation
296 Unic, 16 | world and a fruition of God. I know no other terms in
297 Unic, 16 | realized that it came from God but I could not understand
298 Unic, 16 | occupying themselves wholly with God; not one of them, it seems,
299 Unic, 16 | this state, in praise of God, but, unless the Lord Himself
300 Unic, 16 | glory, to the praise of God, and help her to sing His
301 Unic, 16 | harp and sang in praise of God. I am very much devoted
302 Unic, 16 | O God, what must that soul be
303 Unic, 16 | complained of it to her God. She would have been glad
304 Unic, 16 | This servant of Thine, my God, can no longer endure such
305 Unic, 16 | by preparing yourself for God to grant you this favour,
306 Unic, 16 | and be more pleasing to God; for there is no one who
307 Unic, 16 | catching fire with love for God; and so their flame gives
308 Unic, 16 | maintain it to the glory of God, we ought to be indifferent
309 Unic, 16 | things is truly bold in God's service will be as ready
310 Unic, 17 | more correctly, of what God does within it, for it is
311 Unic, 17 | wholly into the arms of God. If He is pleased to take
312 Unic, 17 | to worry altogether. When God grants the soul prayer as
313 Unic, 17 | of the entire soul with God, except that His Majesty
314 Unic, 17 | it more: greater joys in God and desires to satisfy its
315 Unic, 17 | specially true of myself, for God very often grants me this
316 Unic, 17 | this favour in this way). God constrains the will, and
317 Unic, 17 | itself in the fruition of God, like one who, as he looks,
318 Unic, 17 | at times like these. "My God," I say to Him sometimes, "
319 Unic, 17 | namely, be always occupied in God.~
320 Unic, 17 | is for this, for so far God has not revealed one to
321 Unic, 17 | and a very clear one of God's great power; the faculty
322 Unic, 17 | leave it to its work, for God alone can set it free. In
323 Unic, 17 | with the other faculties, God is pleased to have pity
324 Unic, 17 | assurance as coming from God and be grateful for it to
325 Unic, 18 | all things praise Thee, my God, Who hast so loved us that
326 Unic, 18 | received these mercies, or when God is beginning to bestow them
327 Unic, 18 | others. Thou knowest, my God, that I beseech this of
328 Unic, 18 | that canst do all things! God enlightened my understanding,
329 Unic, 18 | strength to seek and please God, it becomes His pleasure,
330 Unic, 18 | While seeking God in this way, the soul becomes
331 Unic, 18 | maintains the contact with God142 but the other two faculties
332 Unic, 18(142)| to that of Communion with God. Changing the metaphor,
333 Unic, 18 | as it were, in disorder, God, from time to time, gathering
334 Unic, 18 | the soul feels close to God and that there abides within
335 Unic, 18 | ignorant: I did not know that God was in all things, and,
336 Unic, 19 | comforted if at that moment, for God's sake, it could be hacked
337 Unic, 19 | it and all the truth of God's great mercy is revealed.
338 Unic, 19 | consumed147 in praises of God as I would fain become now.
339 Unic, 19 | with others and to beseech God that it may not be alone
340 Unic, 19 | despair or cease to trust in God's greatness. Even if, after
341 Unic, 19 | devils to send me there. Oh, God help me, how terribly blind
342 Unic, 19 | that, by the goodness of God, all the relapses into which
343 Unic, 19 | when it sees what virtues God has placed in them; it praises
344 Unic, 19 | that I ever shall unless God brings this about of His
345 Unic, 19 | for, when I consider what God has borne with from me,
346 Unic, 19 | as wicked as I, approach God in prayer? It was enough
347 Unic, 19 | contempt for the favours of God. I was right to think about
348 Unic, 19 | same fate. For the love of God, let all who practise prayer
349 Unic, 19 | much credit in the sight of God is due to a friar of the
350 Unic, 19 | as giving up prayer. May God, for His name's sake, deliver
351 Unic, 19 | receiving great favours from God in prayer, it must put no
352 Unic, 19 | undoubtedly have come from God, the devil will later be
353 Unic, 19 | but has been taught me by God, and so I should like people
354 Unic, 19 | finds itself very near to God and sees what a difference
355 Unic, 19 | its extreme confidence in God, which knows no discretion.
356 Unic, 19 | come out of the nest, and God is taking it out, but it
357 Unic, 19 | brought to this state by God completely abandons Him,
358 Unic, 19 | trust in the goodness of God, which is greater than all
359 Unic, 20 | should like, with the help of God, to be able to describe
360 Unic, 20 | ourselves into the hands of God and go willingly wherever
361 Unic, 20 | of offending so great a God, but a fear overpowered
362 Unic, 20 | all created things, and God causes it to be so completely
363 Unic, 20 | escape from that solitude. God seems very far from the
364 Unic, 20 | asking itself: "Where is thy God?"154 I should point out
365 Unic, 20 | have said, a knowledge of God so wonderful, and so far
366 Unic, 20 | it wants nothing save its God; but its love is not centred
367 Unic, 20 | desire is for the whole of God and it has no knowledge
368 Unic, 20 | Such is my yearning to see God that I forget everything
369 Unic, 20 | being closely united with God. At that point, in my opinion,
370 Unic, 20 | transformation of the soul in God lasts but a short time,
371 Unic, 20 | while we are on earth -- God, in fact, does not wish
372 Unic, 20 | absorbed in the praises of God or in an attempt to comprehend
373 Unic, 20 | aloft there in the name of God. From his position of security
374 Unic, 20 | everything should be done to God's glory and in conformity
375 Unic, 20 | very much if they are from God; indeed, I should fear that
376 Unic, 20 | that it has to do. Oh, my God, how clear is the meaning
377 Unic, 20 | persons of prayer to whom God is still granting favours!
378 Unic, 20 | and is not pleasing to God, is worth nothing and less
379 Unic, 20(161)| likewise nothing in the eyes of God, and less than nothing." (
380 Unic, 20 | being careful not to offend God and doing all that it could
381 Unic, 20(162)| justified compared with God?") or of Job iv, l7 ("Shall
382 Unic, 20(162)| justified in comparison of God?").]~
383 Unic, 20 | in it is directed towards God; if it says anything about
384 Unic, 21 | or honour for the love of God. How great a blessing would
385 Unic, 21 | O my God! Give them to understand
386 Unic, 21 | commend them earnestly to God and wish that I might be
387 Unic, 21 | merely desires to serve God: His Majesty also gives
388 Unic, 21 | which it thinks it may serve God can be set before it into
389 Unic, 21 | any value save pleasing God. The trouble is that no
390 Unic, 21 | May it be Thy pleasure, my God, that the time may come
391 Unic, 21 | to talk and therefore, my God, it is not Thy good pleasure
392 Unic, 21 | why Saint Paul besought God to deliver him from it;168
393 Unic, 21 | other occasions, it begs God for freedom. But in this
394 Unic, 21 | living all the time without God would temper our fear of
395 Unic, 21 | this fire of the love of God burned so vehemently? Their
396 Unic, 21 | come from the Spirit of God. It is true that some of
397 Unic, 21 | the life of sin against God which it had lived previously.
398 Unic, 21 | positions to the love of God they would do more good
399 Unic, 21 | find it higher still, for God is always giving it new
400 Unic, 21 | giving it new favours. It is God Who is the soul of that
401 Unic, 21 | reached the point at which God began to grant me this great
402 Unic, 21 | enabled to know and love God the better, to realize what
403 Unic, 21 | continued to increase, and God of His goodness has held
404 Unic, 21 | absolutely everything for God's sake! If His Majesty requites
405 Unic, 22 | to believe that He was God and Man, it would have been
406 Unic, 22 | not said to the Mother of God, though she loved Him more
407 Unic, 22 | as circumscribed, but of God as being everywhere, so
408 Unic, 22 | what they are saying, and God leads souls along many roads
409 Unic, 22 | favours granted to souls by God -- will think that view
410 Unic, 22 | experiencing the presence of God, as proved to be true, and
411 Unic, 22 | This type of prayer, if God has a part in it, is full
412 Unic, 22 | always seen, that it is God's will, if we are to please
413 Unic, 22 | When God is pleased to suspend all
414 Unic, 22 | may think itself to be of God. It is a great thing for
415 Unic, 22 | often may be so full of God that it will need no created
416 Unic, 22 | God is well pleased to see a
417 Unic, 22 | for it is in this way that God has led my soul. Others,
418 Unic, 22 | itself in prayer, the higher God raises it. I do not remember
419 Unic, 22 | approach the presence of God, but merely that, as I have
420 Unic, 22 | ourselves in the hands of God, we must walk along this
421 Unic, 22 | as I have said elsewhere. God cares for us better than
422 Unic, 22 | surrendered one's whole will to God? In my view this is much
423 Unic, 22 | a good one; whereas, if God is pleased to give him a
424 Unic, 22 | spirit and yet trusting in God's greatness. Since the soul
425 Unic, 22 | and, when it is strong, God will lead it into the desert.~
426 Unic, 22(177)| this, we must read: "He (God) has no need to proclaim
427 Unic, 22 | are beginning to taste of God, do not believe them if
428 Unic, 22 | their own. Oh, how well God can reveal Himself, when
429 Unic, 22 | belief is this, that, when God has willed that a toad should
430 Unic, 22 | matter even than this if God does not lift them up for
431 Unic, 22 | great is the love which God has revealed to us in giving
432 Unic, 22 | of fortitude bestowed by God in the early stages of rapture,
433 Unic, 22 | realize that even in this life God rewards us a hundredfold.~
434 Unic, 22 | and if we have the help of God and are long enough in their
435 Unic, 22 | are some, of course, whom God leads by a very exalted
436 Unic, 23 | prayer is the life which God has been living in me --
437 Unic, 23 | assurance that this was of God, especially when I was engaged
438 Unic, 23 | all I could not to offend God, for, as I have said, my
439 Unic, 23 | conscious, made me very timid. God help me, what a great mistake
440 Unic, 23 | converse with friends of God, and thus it was for this
441 Unic, 23 | if it was the Spirit of God at work, I was obviously
442 Unic, 23 | resolved upon this, and begging God all the time to help me,
443 Unic, 23 | is so great a servant of God and so charitable a woman
444 Unic, 23 | to be the wife of one who God knew would be a great servant
445 Unic, 23 | another great servant of God who was married to one of
446 Unic, 23 | say, was such a servant of God to come to speak with me:
447 Unic, 23 | no offence of any kind to God. But when I saw how determinedly
448 Unic, 23 | for leading beginners to God, it was not God's will that
449 Unic, 23 | beginners to God, it was not God's will that he should understand
450 Unic, 23 | day but to be sure that God would help me to get rid
451 Unic, 23 | experienced it. And as I hope in God that Your Reverence will
452 Unic, 23 | him of the graces which God was bestowing upon me, he
453 Unic, 23 | only quite recently that God has granted me the grace
454 Unic, 23 | really desired to please God and I could not persuade
455 Unic, 23 | account of my great sins God might be blinding me so
456 Unic, 23 | the union of the soul with God, all the symptoms I had
457 Unic, 23 | holy man and a servant of God, should look at it and tell
458 Unic, 23 | these two servants of God188 considered with great
459 Unic, 23 | persons to commend me to God and had prayed continually.
460 Unic, 23 | Sacrament of Confession God would give him more light
461 Unic, 23 | words of Saint Paul, that God is very faithful and never
462 Unic, 23 | are anxious to approach God!~
463 Unic, 23(189)| Corinthians x, 13. "And God is faithful, who will not
464 Unic, 23 | I told that servant of God190 all about my soul (and
465 Unic, 23 | was indeed a servant of God and a very prudent one,
466 Unic, 23 | being led by the Spirit of God and that I needed to return
467 Unic, 23 | on the contrary, since God was granting me such special
468 Unic, 23 | responsive to the favours that God was showing me. Throughout,
469 Unic, 24 | to resist the favours of God and how His Majesty went
470 Unic, 24 | me by the way of love for God, which brought me, not oppression,
471 Unic, 24 | the favours and graces of God. The change in me was manifest
472 Unic, 24 | consolations and favours of God I gained this -- that His
473 Unic, 24 | hurt me; and suggested that God might perhaps be giving
474 Unic, 24 | which I might commit against God I would feel in my soul
475 Unic, 24 | favours and graces from God, as rewards in this life
476 Unic, 24 | being led by the Spirit of God and that he thought I should
477 Unic, 24 | said I was being led by God and he continued to help
478 Unic, 24 | become entirely pleasing to God, and he treated me with
479 Unic, 24 | actually leading me to offend God. There was a great deal
480 Unic, 24 | ungrateful if I was not offending God. He told me to commend the
481 Unic, 24 | to commend the matter to God for a few days, and to recite
482 Unic, 24 | people who I believe love God and try to serve Him, nor
483 Unic, 24 | know that a person loves God or practises prayer, it
484 Unic, 24 | everything for the sake of God, Who in that moment -- for
485 Unic, 24 | Blessed for ever be God, Who in one moment gave
486 Unic, 25 | these locutions bestowed by God on the soul are apprehended
487 Unic, 25 | nature of the locutions which God bestows upon the soul, and
488 Unic, 25 | not understand. But when God talks in this way to the
489 Unic, 25 | itself so completely to what God wishes me to understand
490 Unic, 25 | which the locution is of God, I have a great deal of
491 Unic, 25 | things in which the Spirit of God can be clearly perceived,
492 Unic, 25 | commended some matter to God with great affection and
493 Unic, 25 | once heard the Spirit of God: if it has not, it may continue
494 Unic, 25 | literally true. I praise God that I have been able so
495 Unic, 25 | saying that he has heard from God what comes from himself
496 Unic, 25 | other pleasure given by God.~
497 Unic, 25 | anything of the kind until God, of His goodness alone,
498 Unic, 25 | will not deceive, and that God will not permit him to deceive,
499 Unic, 25 | love for the Faith, which God immediately infuses into
500 Unic, 25 | itself stopping to say "If God says this to me, it may