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501 Unic, 25 | that a thing comes from God only if it is in conformity
502 Unic, 25 | previously was that it came from God, however sure I might have
503 Unic, 25 | assured me it came from God, I should not believe it.
504 Unic, 25 | of them great servants of God, and my confessor told me
505 Unic, 25 | provided I did not offend God, my prayer could do me no
506 Unic, 25 | must pray frequently to God. He and all his penitents
507 Unic, 25 | I knew to be servants of God, spent the whole of the
508 Unic, 25 | O my God, had I but understanding
509 Unic, 25 | that this was the work of God. Oh, what a good God! Oh,
510 Unic, 25 | of God. Oh, what a good God! Oh, what a good Lord! What
511 Unic, 25 | and it really seemed that God was giving me courage: in
512 Unic, 25 | them, or on servants of God whom, for their greater
513 Unic, 25 | for their greater good, God allows to be tried and tormented.
514 Unic, 25 | will hate everything for God's sake and embrace the Cross
515 Unic, 25 | Please God I be not one of these! May
516 Unic, 25 | when we might be saying "God! God!" and making the devil
517 Unic, 25 | we might be saying "God! God!" and making the devil tremble.
518 Unic, 26 | anything, save of offending God, since we have a King Who
519 Unic, 26 | miseries. But the ways of God are not like the ways of
520 Unic, 26 | impulses and the desire to see God, which I shall describe
521 Unic, 26 | rest, save that which is in God, or comes through God, which
522 Unic, 26 | in God, or comes through God, which does not weary it,
523 Unic, 26 | these locutions come from God that I think the fact cannot
524 Unic, 26 | received a reproof from God which caused me more confusion
525 Unic, 26 | treating the wonders of God irreverently by talking
526 Unic, 26 | As, by the help of God, I shall say more about
527 Unic, 27 | though I was beseeching God to do this, and though I
528 Unic, 27 | different; so I put myself into God's hands, for I could do
529 Unic, 27 | consciousness of the presence of God which is often experienced,
530 Unic, 27 | great favour comes from God: and he to whom it is granted
531 Unic, 27 | recognizes the presence of God by the effects which, as
532 Unic, 27 | with another way in which God teaches the soul, and addresses
533 Unic, 27 | carefully this way in which God causes the soul to understand
534 Unic, 27 | we described previously, God makes the understanding
535 Unic, 27 | rapture), even so it is here. God and the soul understand
536 Unic, 27 | wondrous loving-kindness of God, Who permittest Thyself
537 Unic, 27 | give up everything for Him God gives Himself. He is not
538 Unic, 27 | vision and favour which God bestows on the soul; but
539 Unic, 27(213)| reference to Acts x, 34. (D.V.: "God is not a respecter of persons.")]~
540 Unic, 27 | aloud, Your Reverence, since God has denied me the freedom
541 Unic, 27 | written, it was so long before God heard me and I came to know
542 Unic, 27 | they could possibly do for God, and kept back nothing,
543 Unic, 27 | For we believe that God is better pleased when we
544 Unic, 27 | grand picture of it has God just taken from us in the
545 Unic, 27 | violent impulses of love for God, of which I was myself once
546 Unic, 28 | produces when it proceeds from God. This chapter is very profitable
547 Unic, 28 | is. And so quickly does God reveal it to us that, even
548 Unic, 28 | never became clear to me how God did this and how it was
549 Unic, 28 | needed was to remember that God did everything and then
550 Unic, 28 | that He is both Man and God -- not as He was in the
551 Unic, 28 | sin; for, though it sees God revealing His love to it,
552 Unic, 28 | the majesty and beauty of God are so deeply imprinted
553 Unic, 28 | it seems even to forget God Himself. The soul is now
554 Unic, 28 | continuously absorbed in God; it seems to me that a new
555 Unic, 28 | a new and living love of God is beginning to work within
556 Unic, 28 | which, as I said, reveals God without presenting any image
557 Unic, 28 | revealed to us how He is God, and that He is powerful,
558 Unic, 28 | vision has when it comes from God. He makes these attempts
559 Unic, 28 | had a genuine vision from God will recognize the devil'
560 Unic, 28 | different from those of God: there is no suggestion
561 Unic, 28 | produced when a vision is of God, or, indeed, any effects
562 Unic, 28 | riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even
563 Unic, 28 | a lost creature; and, as God was not leading these persons
564 Unic, 28 | By the providence of God this Father consented to
565 Unic, 28 | me: so great a servant of God was he that for His sake
566 Unic, 28 | me that I must not offend God or depart from what he said
567 Unic, 28 | involving a new experience, God allowed me to be left in
568 Unic, 28 | had less to suffer, for God showed him the truth about
569 Unic, 28 | Those of God's servants who were not
570 Unic, 29 | and it was quite usual for God to grant me this favour.
571 Unic, 29 | be afraid, they said, and God would protect me and take
572 Unic, 29 | that my visions came from God, it was a terrible thing
573 Unic, 29 | commanded me. I besought God often to set me free from
574 Unic, 29 | within me so strong a love of God that I did not know who
575 Unic, 29 | dying with the desire to see God and I knew no way of seeking
576 Unic, 29 | quite well that it desires God and that the arrow seems
577 Unic, 29 | describe the way in which God wounds the soul and the
578 Unic, 29(229)| soul panteth after thee, O God."~
579 Unic, 29 | it feels for the love of God; but its initial pain is
580 Unic, 29 | pass away, if the soul begs God to grant it relief from
581 Unic, 29 | afire with a great love for God. The pain was so sharp that
582 Unic, 29 | with anything less than God. It is not bodily pain,
583 Unic, 29 | pass between the soul and God that if anyone thinks I
584 Unic, 29 | thinks I am lying I beseech God, in His goodness, to give
585 Unic, 30 | due course that servant of God -- the widow of whom I have
586 Unic, 30 | the work of the Spirit of God; and, as she is a person
587 Unic, 30 | experiencing. Since that time God has granted me the ability
588 Unic, 30 | distressed but to praise God and be quite certain that
589 Unic, 30 | farther than that: please God I may still be as far advanced
590 Unic, 30 | each other earnestly to God; for so great was his humility
591 Unic, 30 | that the prayer came from God. For my greater security,
592 Unic, 30 | weary of giving thanks to God and to my glorious father
593 Unic, 30 | see what a great favour God is granting us by sending
594 Unic, 30 | it is at having offended God, it is also encouraged by
595 Unic, 30 | anything good and thinks of God as of one who is always
596 Unic, 30 | fire and sword. It pictures God's righteousness, and, although
597 Unic, 30 | when my soul considers God's mercy, this only increases
598 Unic, 30 | in search of relief and God allows it to find none;
599 Unic, 30 | avoiding giving offence to God, seems to be walking by
600 Unic, 30 | it feels as if it knows God only as something of which
601 Unic, 30 | his neighbour or offend God. Then again, it is certainly
602 Unic, 30 | not offensive, I mean, to God -- but they were the strongest
603 Unic, 30 | wrong with me. I rejoiced in God and made my complaint to
604 Unic, 30 | quite a fleeting one, about God, or about anything good,
605 Unic, 30 | a wonder -- glory be to God! -- it never occupies itself
606 Unic, 30 | say to the Lord: "When, my God, shall I at last see all
607 Unic, 30 | service which they rendered to God, such reading helps me and
608 Unic, 30 | otherwise than feed on some of God's great favours; it does
609 Unic, 30 | mentioned, in those to whom God gives them. It reminds me
610 Unic, 30 | might help it to praise God. Oh, how often do I remember
611 Unic, 30 | impulse moves me to serve God in some way, but I am useless
612 Unic, 30 | then, for souls to whom God in His goodness grants an
613 Unic, 30 | confessions and bring souls to God. It has no knowledge or
614 Unic, 31 | distressed to find that God was being offended in such
615 Unic, 31 | would pray earnestly to God that He would help him and
616 Unic, 31 | prayed to Him on his behalf God was pleased to bestow this
617 Unic, 31 | asked me to commend him to God. I spoke about it again
618 Unic, 31 | help the true servant of God to make little account of
619 Unic, 31 | nearer. I realized that God was guarding me so that
620 Unic, 31 | am not fighting against God, that I am hardly afraid
621 Unic, 31 | had to commend myself to God. Until my confessor set
622 Unic, 31 | mine at all but came from God, then, just as I was not
623 Unic, 31 | took comfort at seeing that God was showing His power in
624 Unic, 31 | zeal, which was to beseech God, and to make it my special
625 Unic, 31 | soul left in the hands of God cares nothing whether good
626 Unic, 31 | pusillanimous. For a soul which God allows to walk in this way
627 Unic, 31 | here and want to fly before God gives them wings. I think
628 Unic, 31 | all external things for God. Then they see in others
629 Unic, 31 | must be bestowed upon us by God, for they seem to me to
630 Unic, 31 | cling to us, if, as I say, God has not given us the grace
631 Unic, 31 | no file can sever; only God can break it, with the aid
632 Unic, 31 | everyone is astonished at them. God bless me, then! Why are
633 Unic, 31 | who is doing so much for God? Why, simply his punctiliousness
634 Unic, 31 | to attain to union with God. We want to follow the counsels
635 Unic, 31 | is the general rule. Once God opened my eyes a little,
636 Unic, 31 | trifling things, to which God attaches importance because
637 Unic, 31 | angels who were praising God there, until -- I do not
638 Unic, 32 | place? Blessed be Thou, my God, for ever! How plain it
639 Unic, 32 | take some trouble to serve God and refrain from doing certain
640 Unic, 32 | the most constant fear of God. And yet look at the place
641 Unic, 32 | mortal sin. For the love of God, let us keep free from occasions
642 Unic, 32 | quite well that it was of God and that His Majesty had
643 Unic, 32 | wonder what I could do for God, and it occurred to me that
644 Unic, 32 | there were many servants of God, and He was well served
645 Unic, 32 | matter very earnestly to God.~
646 Unic, 32(256)| pronouns which refer to God, so the matter must remain
647 Unic, 32 | was, I commended myself to God and His Majesty began to
648 Unic, 32 | a most devout servant of God, of the Order of Saint Dominic,260
649 Unic, 32 | that it really came from God, if that learned man had
650 Unic, 32 | Later, this servant of God told me that at one point
651 Unic, 32 | that we should be rendering God a great service and that
652 Unic, 32 | to some extent to trust God. Anyone, he said, who offered
653 Unic, 32 | that the idea might be from God, in which decision the Lord
654 Unic, 32 | the cleric and servant of God to whom, as I said, I had
655 Unic, 32 | place and a person whom God keeps there for the help
656 Unic, 33 | myself, and so I could serve God quite well where I was;
657 Unic, 33 | was silent. At other times God was so gracious to me that
658 Unic, 33 | offence had been given to God, if these visions were illusory,
659 Unic, 33 | growth in my soul of love for God and of many other graces
660 Unic, 33 | impulses of the love of God which I have described,
661 Unic, 33 | things supernatural. And God brought him back just at
662 Unic, 33 | being led by the Spirit of God, having studied and thought
663 Unic, 33 | to melt away in love for God, and with other feelings
664 Unic, 33 | never doubt that this was of God, however hard I tried. It
665 Unic, 34 | commended myself earnestly to God; and, during the whole of
666 Unic, 34 | bring trials upon me, but God would be greatly served,
667 Unic, 34 | whom I knew. She was a most God fearing lady and so good
668 Unic, 34 | desire to be a great lady. God deliver me from this sinful
669 Unic, 34 | to be a great servant of God; so I got up in order to
670 Unic, 34 | he gave himself wholly to God. For some years now I have
671 Unic, 34 | see him wholly given to God, and sometimes this yearning
672 Unic, 34 | want everybody to serve God, my desire that those whom
673 Unic, 34 | to commend him often to God: he had no need to do so,
674 Unic, 34 | distance that separates it from God. For the love which it knows
675 Unic, 34 | goodness and humaneness of God, Who regards not the words
676 Unic, 34 | had incurred the enmity of God. I could not be sure if
677 Unic, 34 | to think I had offended God and my distress about this
678 Unic, 34 | grace, since my love for God was so strong and His Majesty
679 Unic, 34 | and I believe I promised God that I would, but I was
680 Unic, 34 | clearly that it came from God, for he made a most earnest
681 Unic, 34 | life. And -- praised be God for ever! -- so he did,
682 Unic, 34 | that in so short a time God could have shown him such
683 Unic, 34 | being gifts bestowed by God when He wills and as He
684 Unic, 34 | thought of the wonders of God, Who had raised a soul to
685 Unic, 34 | shoulder to shoulder, ready for God's sake to risk a thousand
686 Unic, 34 | greatly to the service of God and had undergone other
687 Unic, 34 | know that I am not lying. God grant that I may never,
688 Unic, 34 | had all been fulfilled. God be praised for ever, Who
689 Unic, 35(296)| city. But, believing that God had called her to found
690 Unic, 35 | about begging for love of God and have no house or any
691 Unic, 35 | not make people richer and God never fails those who serve
692 Unic, 35 | faith of this servant of God was not.~
693 Unic, 35 | earnestly commending my plan to God, the Lord told me that I
694 Unic, 35 | doubt that it had been of God. On another occasion He
695 Unic, 35 | live only on the love of God.~
696 Unic, 35 | undergo any martyrdom for God's sake, I could not possibly
697 Unic, 35 | peril, and so I praised God that I was not there. I
698 Unic, 35 | felt that I was rendering God nothing but lip-service.
699 Unic, 35 | in, he told me to do so: God had moved him just as He
700 Unic, 35 | doing a great service to God, as well as giving her many
701 Unic, 35 | perfection and to the service of God, and as pleasing Him always
702 Unic, 35 | waited. Oh, the greatness of God! I am often astounded when
703 Unic, 35 | of this little corner of God's house (for such, I believe,
704 Unic, 35 | who truly loves Thee, my God, travels by a broad and
705 Unic, 35 | ever forward on the way of God. Our eyes must be fixed
706 Unic, 36 | gentleman,307 a great servant of God, in whose house this saintly
707 Unic, 36 | he was one with whom God's servants could always
708 Unic, 36 | who were great servants of God. From the very beginning
709 Unic, 36 | unable to commend myself to God. I really think my anguish
710 Unic, 36 | Oh, God help me! What a miserable
711 Unic, 36 | unhappiness in order to serve God, it would serve me as a
712 Unic, 36 | his house. I offered up to God all I should have to suffer,
713 Unic, 36 | and so, without offending God, made me, and all the people
714 Unic, 36 | here. So those servants of God were alone in the house
715 Unic, 36 | up altogether. I went to God and said: "Lord, this house
716 Unic, 36 | who was a great servant of God and a lover of all perfection,
717 Unic, 36 | It was this servant of God of whom I am speaking who
718 Unic, 36 | zealous and devoted servant of God,322 who suggested that,
719 Unic, 36 | realized the work was of God, since His Majesty had seen
720 Unic, 36 | advance in the service of God. They find their greatest
721 Unic, 36 | sisters. They speak only of God, and they understand no
722 Unic, 36 | Reverence, for the love of God, if you think it well to
723 Unic, 36 | encouragement in the service of God to those who come after
724 Unic, 36 | and be heavily punished by God who attempts to mitigate
725 Unic, 37 | in these favours which God grants the soul, there are
726 Unic, 37 | consolations and favours given by God in a vision or in a rapture
727 Unic, 37 | understanding of the wonders of God, for I see that he who understands
728 Unic, 37 | intentionally giving any offence to God, I would delight in seeing
729 Unic, 37 | so truly in the place of God that I always like to follow
730 Unic, 37 | greatly. I saw that, although God, He was also Man, and is
731 Unic, 37 | soul. If the vision is of God, its source will be recognizable
732 Unic, 37 | all sense of my debt to God and was unable to recapture
733 Unic, 37 | low a soul can sink when God is not forever working within
734 Unic, 37 | clearly that it is not without God: this is not like the severe
735 Unic, 37 | the fire of the love of God. It is only by His great
736 Unic, 37 | Majesty. "How is it, my God," I have said to Him, "that
737 Unic, 37 | any time in the service of God. When I see all that goes
738 Unic, 37 | were good -- and please God they may believe us!~
739 Unic, 37 | occupy its thoughts with God and to be sure to keep them
740 Unic, 37 | should be, always to please God and to hate the world, I
741 Unic, 37 | discussing the wonders of God and I have descended so
742 Unic, 37 | own satisfaction. And pray God that in the life to come,
743 Unic, 38 | own. It is all effected by God, for, when His Majesty reveals
744 Unic, 38 | easy for one who serves God, for in a moment the soul
745 Unic, 38 | This experience, in which God bears away the spirit in
746 Unic, 38 | attached: to those who love God in truth and have put aside
747 Unic, 38 | general rule, the mercy of God gives me assurance, for,
748 Unic, 38 | that by the goodness of God, and so far as I could understand,
749 Unic, 38 | then. For this I praised God and remembered a previous
750 Unic, 38 | I gave great praises to God, for so changed was my life
751 Unic, 38 | progress in the highest love of God and of a very great trengthening
752 Unic, 38 | he was to draw souls to God.~
753 Unic, 38 | from doing so. In the end, God gave him the reward of the
754 Unic, 38 | that Majesty of the Son of God, although not in the same
755 Unic, 38 | although -- glory be to God! -- I had no desires for
756 Unic, 38 | life with so little fear of God, when she finds herself
757 Unic, 38 | had it been a vision from God, His Majesty would not have
758 Unic, 38 | pronounces those words may be, God is always present without
759 Unic, 38 | knowledge of what I owe to God. May He be blessed for ever
760 Unic, 38 | thinking upon the goodness of God Who would not allow that
761 Unic, 38 | with the soul? Would to God that this frightful thing
762 Unic, 38 | realize better what I owe to God and what He has saved me
763 Unic, 38 | people to commend him to God and to do so myself, except
764 Unic, 38 | been a great servant of God had died in our house,344
765 Unic, 38 | poor health; and she served God well and was fond of choir
766 Unic, 38 | I was commending him to God as well as I was able, and
767 Unic, 39 | militated grievously against God and His honour and was firmly
768 Unic, 39 | there were none. I besought God from the bottom of my heart
769 Unic, 39 | that what I was asking of God was to be granted me, and,
770 Unic, 39 | learned men and servants of God.349~
771 Unic, 39 | knew had resolved to serve God in very truth; for some
772 Unic, 39 | which I did nothing but beg God to turn this soul to Himself.
773 Unic, 39 | and had so truly turned to God that I hope in His Majesty
774 Unic, 39 | others by persons to whom God has given a knowledge of
775 Unic, 39 | But, O my God, how is it that even in
776 Unic, 39 | quite young in years.352 God touches their hearts and
777 Unic, 39 | wholly, as a sacrifice, to God.~
778 Unic, 39 | myself I ought to be in God's presence! For what His
779 Unic, 39 | the favours given them by God, are soaring like eagles
780 Unic, 39 | themselves put their trust in God and their trust makes the
781 Unic, 39 | detached and how much nearer to God these souls must be than
782 Unic, 39 | everything, in order to please God, without great potency of
783 Unic, 39 | resolutions to do things for God than a few of no weight
784 Unic, 39 | won some merit by serving God. I do not mean that our
785 Unic, 39 | spirituality. Is it not enough that God has thought him worthy to
786 Unic, 39 | practised prayer? Must he sue God, as we say, for his money'
787 Unic, 39 | not make progress, or that God will not grant us progress:
788 Unic, 39 | ducats? For the love of God, let us leave all this to
789 Unic, 39 | questions of which only God has knowledge? And this
790 Unic, 39 | Oh, God help me! If I were to describe
791 Unic, 39 | Heaven and calling upon God. I kept clearly in mind
792 Unic, 39 | none who never changes save God. In these sore trials the
793 Unic, 39 | and from the true love of God, for, however much I desire
794 Unic, 39 | whether these visions were of God or no, the Lord appeared
795 Unic, 39 | told me not to suppose that God could allow the devil to
796 Unic, 39 | that the visions came from God, I should be doing wrong
797 Unic, 39 | possible for there to be one God alone and Three Persons
798 Unic, 39 | more of the greatness of God and of His marvels, and
799 Unic, 40 | directed to the service of God as vanity and lies. I could
800 Unic, 40 | me a fresh reverence for God, by granting me a knowledge
801 Unic, 40 | will not bring us nearer to God. Thus I understood what
802 Unic, 40 | to deal in lies. How, my God, can it be thought fitting
803 Unic, 40 | us where we are to seek God. This is particularly well
804 Unic, 40 | how all things are seen in God and how within Himself He
805 Unic, 40 | Majesty's own presence, God justly grieves for them;
806 Unic, 40 | offences we have committed. Oh, God help me, how blind I have
807 Unic, 40 | angels and very near to God. I began to entreat His
808 Unic, 40 | asked by someone to beg God to tell him if he would
809 Unic, 40 | anyone is a great servant of God, I always find comfort in
810 Unic, 40 | necessary for me. Please God I do not often do more than
811 Unic, 40 | for this that I pray to God most earnestly. I sometimes
812 Unic, 40 | nearer to the vision of God.~
813 Unic, 40 | about it -- glory be to God! -- very little; for I believe
814 Unic, 40 | Your Reverence must beseech God either to take me to be