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1502 Unic, 32 | At the end there was a hollow place scooped out of a wall,
1503 Pref, 2 | So with her homely and vivid metaphors: the
1504 Intr, 0 | they have also entered the homes of millions living in the
1505 Unic, 9(101)| it that this was an Ecce Homo, which is still venerated
1506 Unic, 15 | chance of their making any honey.~
1507 Unic, 2(71) | pouvoir aboutir une alliance honorable pour moi", and Lewis's "
1508 Unic, 32 | places where we could live honourably and keep our vows. Furthermore,
1509 Unic, 27 | rain, he never wore his hood, or anything on his feet,
1510 Unic, 38 | about in turn with large hooks. When I saw it being taken
1511 Unic, 31 | who began better may be hopeful that, as the Lord has taken
1512 Unic, 11 | nothing of the gain which he hopes for from the great labour
1513 Unic, 38 | most hideous aspect. Their horns seemed to be around the
1514 Unic, 38 | treating it roughly. I was horrified at this: they were dragging
1515 Unic, 31 | little account of these horrors, which the devils present
1516 Unic, 36 | servants could always find hospitality.~
1517 Unic, 28 | can trample upon all the hosts of hell. Here we see with
1518 Unic, 36 | them being that I was in hourly fear of being sent back
1519 Unic, 20(153)| sparrow all alone on the housetop." [St. Teresa's spelling
1520 Unic, 29 | with anyone, but only to hug my pain, which caused me
1521 Unic, 31 | holy water about I saw a huge crowd of them running away
1522 Unic, 36 | the form drawn up by Fray Hugo, Cardinal of Santa Sabina,
1523 Unic, 34 | the great goodness and humaneness of God, Who regards not
1524 Unic, 32 | the idea, but he saw that, humanly speaking, there was no way
1525 Unic, 34 | the kingdom, there are few humbler and simpler people than
1526 Unic, 7 | anyone, however strong, who humbles himself and trusts not in
1527 Unic, 11 | season and changes in the humours often prevent it from accomplishing
1528 Pref, 2 | All these -- and there are hundreds of them enlivening her narratives
1529 Unic, 30 | Lord at the well, which hung where I could always see
1530 Unic, 17 | itself perhaps dying of hunger. This will be understood
1531 Unic, 19 | understanding has no need to go out hunting for its food is already
1532 Unic, 9 | do with things that were hurtful for me: these last I did
1533 Unic, 7 | matter of vainglory and hypocrisy -- glory be to God! -- I
1534 Intr, 0 | Avellaneda, wife of Don I-igo de C‡rdenas, President of
1535 Pref, 2(18) | Ibid., Chap. XXXVI (Vol. II,
1536 Unic, 16(132)| is too vague for it to be identified.]~
1537 Unic, 34(279)| referred to (pp. 62-3), identifies him as P. Garc'a de Toledo.
1538 Unic, 26(206)| The Spanish idiom is literally: "who will
1539 Pref, 2 | with her untranslatable idioms, her love for inventing
1540 Intr, 0 | for any of her stylistic idiosyncrasies which may scandalize the
1541 Unic, 17 | that the soul should be idle. The will has only to consent
1542 Unic, 20 | it so wishes, it cannot ignore this; for it sees it by
1543 Unic, 2(71) | choose between P. Grˇgoire's "Il s'agissait de relations
1544 Unic, 30 | causing it an aridity and an ill-disposition for prayer and for everything
1545 Unic, 24 | might perhaps be giving me ill-health just because I did not perform
1546 Unic, 21 | farce of a life and see how ill-organized it is, to spend its time
1547 Unic, 30 | makes me so peevish and ill-tempered that I seem to want to snap
1548 Intr, 0 | reader finds attractive, even illuminating. Her disconnected observations,
1549 Intr, 0 | life by which they were illumined and overshadowed, the naturalness
1550 Pref, 2 | enlivening her narratives and illumining her expositions -- can be
1551 Unic, 33 | God, if these visions were illusory, if all my prayer had been
1552 Pref, 2 | To illustrate these characteristics of
1553 Unic, 11 | where it occurred or what it illustrated, but it satisfies me at
1554 Unic, 22 | Francis, with his stigmata, illustrates this, as does Saint Anthony
1555 Intr, 0 | upon her. Where she uses or imitates the phraseology of Holy
1556 Unic, 6 | devotion to him, in serving and imitating him I have always failed.
1557 Pref, 2 | communicates itself with greater immediacy and intensity than does
1558 Unic, 2 | detestation of everything immodest and preferred passing the
1559 Intr, 0 | exception of Cervantes' immortal Don Quixote. It is surely
1560 Unic, 33 | will that I should not be immune from trials coming from
1561 Pref, 3 | without, however (I hope), impairing their spirit.~
1562 Unic, 31 | are so powerful that they impart their power to the water
1563 Unic, 36 | Reverence328 will be getting impatient at the long account which
1564 Intr, 0 | could never have written impeccable manuals or methodically
1565 Unic, 18 | King, be so great as to imperil such precious jewels. For
1566 Unic, 20 | times found my own life imperilled by serious dangers and illnesses,
1567 Unic, 20 | for, since this distress imperils our life, which it most
1568 Intr, 0 | training of religious. An impetus must have been given to
1569 Unic, 25 | unless a soul should be so impious as to want to pretend to
1570 Unic, 22 | grants us the favour of implanting this love in our hearts,
1571 Unic, 15 | soul all servile fear and implants in it a very much maturer
1572 Pref, 3 | of this edition will be implicit in what has already been
1573 Unic, 38 | this does not in itself imply the state of greatest perfection,
1574 Unic, 18 | faculties soon begin to importune it once more. The will,
1575 Unic, 17 | strength to do any harm, it importunes those who observe it. I
1576 Unic, 35 | had practised all kinds of importunities, to obtain permission from
1577 Lette, 0 | Your Reverence so as to impose upon you the obligation
1578 Unic, 36(327)| the austerities which she imposed that life in her consent
1579 Unic, 28 | Of all impossibilities, the most impossible is
1580 Unic, 32 | it would be difficult and impracticable to find the necessary means
1581 Pref, 2 | page bears the indelible impress of her forceful and vivid
1582 Unic, 20 | absolutely nothing. This imprints in us great humility. Indeed,
1583 Unic, 33(263)| religious communities to imprison their recalcitrant members.~
1584 Unic, 21 | it feels most keenly the imprisonment into which we are led by
1585 Intr, 0 | be nothing intrinsically improbable in the idea that a writer
1586 Unic, 19 | me, drawn from a well so impure), I seem to be making Thee
1587 Unic, 20 | being cleansed now of the impurities of which it would need to
1588 Intr, 0 | textual errors, frequent inaccuracies of fact, exaggerations in
1589 Unic, 15(127)| confused by a writer as often inaccurate as St. Teresa. Lewis, p.
1590 Unic, 20 | state, the faculties are inactive: they are suspended by their
1591 Unic, 22(169)| come. No doubt this was an inadvertence on the part of the author.]~
1592 Unic, 7(94) | The Saint wrote, no doubt inadvertently, "that did not displease
1593 Intr, 0 | publication of her treatises inaugurated for the mystics an epoch
1594 Outl, 0 | May 28. Ceremony of the inauguration of the new house at Seville.~
1595 Unic, 13 | the devil does his best to incapacitate when he sees that we are
1596 Unic, 38 | think it would be a great incentive to amendment. All this makes
1597 Unic, 30 | gushing up and which keep on incessantly stirring up the sand all
1598 Unic, 25 | not cause it to budge an inch from the Church's teachings.
1599 Unic, 7 | their good desires, while inciting others, whose wills are
1600 Unic, 40(363)| this view, but P. Silverio inclines to agree with Graci‡n and
1601 Intr, 0 | edition was the first to include the Foundations. The editio
1602 Unic, 11 | the two things seem to me incompatible. So, being unable to make
1603 Unic, 31(244)| the Life) of St. Teresa's inconsequent way of writing. An idea
1604 Unic, 35 | revenue entailed so many inconveniences, and was such a cause of
1605 Intr, 0 | respected everywhere as an incredibly gifted teacher, who has
1606 Unic, 6 | to grow well and then to incur damnation, it would be better
1607 Unic, 34 | prayer, wondering if I had incurred the enmity of God. I could
1608 Unic, 39 | in any direction without incurring mortal peril, and I was
1609 Unic, 16(135)| scored through that they are indecipherable. No doubt they were words
1610 Intr, 0 | edition [which we owe to the indefatigable P. Silverio de Santa Teresa.]~
1611 Pref, 2 | not, every page bears the indelible impress of her forceful
1612 Unic, 38 | understand, but it remained so indelibly stamped upon my imagination
1613 Unic, 26(208)| Inquisitor of Spain, published an Index of books of which he forbade
1614 Unic, 1(62) | years later fighting the Indians on the banks of the Rio
1615 Unic, 22(169)| which follows is in the indicative mood: grammatically, therefore,
1616 Pref, 1 | providing comprehensive indices.~
1617 Unic, 19(148)| interesting illustration of her indifference to precision in her work.
1618 Unic, 32(259)| Orders". But when she turned indignantly to see how St. Teresa was
1619 Unic, 7 | be nothing greater. So by indirect methods, and to the best
1620 Unic, 31 | well of me, I would manage, indirectly or in any way that I could,
1621 Unic, 3 | because I was often very indiscreet. O God, in how many ways
1622 Unic, 36 | how, when I was so often indisposed, I could want to endure
1623 Unic, 25 | inventing are fantastic and indistinct and have not the clarity
1624 Unic, 28 | Sometimes, because of its indistinctness, I would think the vision
1625 Pref, 2 | she wrote could her strong individuality ever be concealed. No translator
1626 Unic, 7 | perforce to call each of them individually, and not once but many times,
1627 Unic, 36 | the devil himself who had induced me to do this, in order
1628 Unic, 13 | martyrs. Then he tells us, or induces us to believe, that we who
1629 Unic, 15 | about looking for ways of inducing humility and confusion;
1630 Unic, 2 | and by another person who indulged in the same kinds of pastime.~
1631 Unic, 9 | for I was told that many indulgences could be gained by so doing;
1632 Unic, 13 | less self-regarding and indulgent my health has been very
1633 Unic, 7 | the practice of prayer. Indulging in vanities myself though
1634 Unic, 13 | lessons which, if it is industrious, or well stored with learning,
1635 Intr, 0 | sublime beauty bearing the ineffaceable hallmark of genius.~
1636 Pref, 3 | from the Bible are often inexact: my rule has been to give
1637 Unic, 13 | afflicted because of the inexperience of their director that I
1638 Unic, 22 | of Padua with the Divine Infant. Saint Bernard, too, delighted
1639 Unic, 22(177)| seems to me a definitely inferior interpretation.]~
1640 Intr, 0 | melancholy,49 it has been inferred that a book of hers on this
1641 Unic, 2(71) | the editor's footnote inferring that St. Teresa had "listened
1642 Unic, 36(325)| P. Jer-nimo de San Josˇ infers from the Preface to the
1643 Unic, 6 | possibility of this in the infirmary. I made my confession very
1644 Unic, 1 | endured a life of great infirmity: she was also particularly
1645 Unic, 28(223)| was a man of a rigid and inflexible temperament. P. Luis de
1646 Unic, 31 | disturbances and temptations inflicted upon me by the devil I shall
1647 Unic, 2 | virtue, and was greatly influenced by her, and by another person
1648 Unic, 27 | prayer there come to it influences from the Godhead; but in
1649 Unic, 36(309)| St. Teresa was there, to inform her of the progress being
1650 Unic, 38 | been present when he died informed me that, before passing
1651 Unic, 28 | a soft whiteness and an infused radiance which, without
1652 Unic, 25 | Faith, which God immediately infuses into it, and which produces
1653 Pref, 2 | which it needs all one's ingenuity to render -- such are the
1654 Unic, 8 | come to know the vanity inherent in the world, everything
1655 Intr, 0 | idea that a writer with the initiative and imagination of St. Teresa,
1656 Unic, 7 | by doing so I should not injure my good name95 but rather
1657 Unic, 33 | done to it not to make it injurious to the health. And that
1658 Unic, 34 | spent in that house, its inmates should come to render His
1659 Unic, 27 | Lord introduces into the inmost part of the soul what He
1660 Unic, 28 | completely as the Lord of that inn, the soul, that it feels
1661 Unic, 36 | the pontificate of Pope Innocent IV.~
1662 Unic, 33 | should have to go before the Inquisitors. But they only amused me
1663 Unic, 39 | bear in mind the vanity inseparable from everything in this
1664 Unic, 22(170)| all the rest" was inserted by the author in the margin
1665 Unic, 7 | what is wrong that I cannot insist upon it sufficiently. It
1666 Unic, 36 | have any revenue. He had insisted upon this in the letter
1667 Intr, 0 | concerning the way. Her practical insistence upon the virtuous life,
1668 Unic, 28 | in writing, at your very insistent request. It distressed me
1669 Unic, 12 | become aware of the fact instantly. It is specially harmful
1670 Unic, 8 | The devil does well to instil fear into us so that he
1671 Unic, 26 | by means of strong inward instincts the soul is made aware if
1672 Unic, 29(232)| observed on August 27. First instituted for the Discalced Carmelites
1673 Outl, 0 | Xavier.~1726. Benedict XIII institutes the Feast of the Transverberation
1674 Unic, 24 | everything, exactly as he had instructed me to do. And when the persons
1675 Unic, 36 | wicked as I am, to be His instrument. I was so happy, therefore
1676 Unic, 6 | how little my strength and insufficiency of virtue can achieve if
1677 Unic, 36(322)| Baltasar çlvarez, but gives insufficient evidence for the supposition,
1678 Unic, 29 | of the way the Jews had insulted Him, and I would beseech
1679 Unic, 33 | The nuns said that I was insulting them; that there were others
1680 Unic, 13 | remembered by those who use their intellects a great deal and from one
1681 Intr, 0 | By thy larg draughts of intellectuall day, ~And by thy thirsts
1682 Unic, 27 | him, for he was extremely intelligent. There are many other things
1683 Unic, 28 | these he sometimes only intensified. He had also to reassure
1684 Unic, 4(80) | live with her, to take the intensive and painful course of treatment
1685 Intr, 0 | But since my intent is but to expound these
1686 Unic, 20 | one another if nobody were interested in money and honour! I really
1687 Unic, 19(148)| of the psalm. This is an interesting illustration of her indifference
1688 Unic, 22 | now wish to speak, without interfering with the souls of others,
1689 Pref, 2 | addition to the difficulty of interpreting that personality by means
1690 Unic, 20(162)| shall be justified." But the interrogative form suggests rather Job
1691 Outl, 0 | of the Carmelite Order. Interruption of her work on Interior
1692 Unic, 25 | and then, after a long interval has elapsed, I have found
1693 Unic, 34 | this to pass through my intervention, I realized how unworthy
1694 Pref, 2 | whose self-importance was so intimately mingled with her devoutness.
1695 Abbr | Nueva ed. aumentada, con introducci-n, etc., por el P. Jaime Pons.
1696 Unic, 28 | describe how it is that He can introduce this strong light into the
1697 Unic, 27 | by experience. The Lord introduces into the inmost part of
1698 Intr, 0 | mystical ideas are constantly invading; while the Interior Castle,
1699 Outl, 0 | Returns to Incarnation. An invalid till late in 1541: "This (
1700 Unic, 32(259)| certain Order") began to inveigh against "nuns who left their
1701 Unic, 29(232)| of the most extraordinary inventions. [Some of these are described
1702 Pref, 2 | perfection of how the devil invents "laws by which we (nuns)
1703 Unic, 38(342)| particular Orders, for fear of invidiousness, and that Fray Luis thought
1704 Unic, 25 | refreshment which is sweet, invigorating, lasting in its effects,
1705 Unic, 7 | sensuality and the devil invite and incline them to do things
1706 Unic, 10 | indeed we already possess it, invites and constrains us to love,
1707 Unic, 29 | many tears. I would also invoke Saint Peter and Saint Paul,
1708 Unic, 19 | propitiate Thee. Now it invokes the saints, who likewise
1709 Unic, 18 | without great pain; its eyes involuntarily close, or, if they remain
1710 Unic, 30 | since I realize that it involves me in greater obligations.239~
1711 Unic, 28 | whenever I had a vision involving a new experience, God allowed
1712 Intr, 0 | the spinning-wheel, and it irked her to leave such a profitable
1713 Unic, 20 | we realize that, however irksome this truth may be, there
1714 Pref, 2 | And in her less frequent ironical passages, such as the description
1715 Pref, 2 | commonsense, humour and irony. "I just laughed to myself"
1716 Pref, 3 | have occasionally omitted irrelevant passages or condensed their
1717 Intr, 0 | would otherwise have been irretrievably lost, including part of
1718 Unic, 40 | sight with the greatest irreverence! I saw how truly one single
1719 Unic, 26 | treating the wonders of God irreverently by talking about them, and
1720 Unic, 16 | river or a spring. This irrigates the garden with much less
1721 Unic, 12 | left with any feeling of irritation. I think I have made this
1722 Outl, 0 | Canonized by Gregory XV with SS. Isidro, Ignatius of Loyola and
1723 Unic, 17 | bear patiently with it as Jacob bore with Lia, for the Lord
1724 Abbr | introducci-n, etc., por el P. Jaime Pons. Barcelona, 1908.~S.
1725 Outl, 0 | of my life": F I).~1562~January-July. Stays with Do-a Luisa de
1726 Unic, 34 | trials, or from certain jealousies on the part of some of them,
1727 Unic, 24(195)| Do-a Guiomar (or Jer-nima) de Ulloa. Both her parents,
1728 Unic, 27 | weep with the daughters of Jerusalem?214 Will pleasures and pastimes
1729 Unic, 29 | reminded me of the way the Jews had insulted Him, and I
1730 Unic, 21 | deliver him from it;168 it joins its cries to his; and, as
1731 Unic, 35(296)| making her profession and journeyed with some friends to Rome,
1732 Unic, 22 | with blood, exhausted by journeying, persecuted by those to
1733 Unic, 4(80) | sister she saved herself long journeys during the winter. This
1734 Unic, 20 | but it is a gentle and a joyful flight and also a silent
1735 Unic, 14 | which God bestows here flow joyfully; though the soul is conscious
1736 Unic, 13(114)| Da quod jubes et jube quod vis" (Confessions,
1737 Unic, 13(114)| Da quod jubes et jube quod vis" (Confessions,
1738 Unic, 19 | which the devil tempted Judas, except that he dared not
1739 Unic, 22 | Thou stoodest before Thy judges. With so good a Friend,
1740 Unic, 19 | Justus es, Domine, and Thy judgments. . . ."148 I began to think
1741 Unic, 20(159)| abhorreas eorum visionem et judicia, tanquam stultas dementias,
1742 Unic, 19(148)| Justus es, Domine, et rectum judicium tuum." The remainder of
1743 Unic, 31 | thirsty were to drink from a jug of cold water: he would
1744 Unic, 36(316)| commotion" mainly from Juli‡n de Avila's biography of
1745 Outl, 0 | of the Moraleja Chapter.)~June-November. Continues Foundations.~
1746 Unic, 19 | and I think with great justification, so I conceived enmity for
1747 Unic, 40 | Majesty's own presence, God justly grieves for them; and that
1748 Pref, 4 | the Carmelite Fathers of Kensington, and to the Benedictines
1749 Unic, 40 | low by them; others were killed. This, I thought, was a
1750 Unic, 16 | see itself free: eating is killing it; sleep brings it anguish.
1751 Unic, 15 | it is this that begins to kindle the great fire which (as
1752 Unic, 37 | the Lord comes back and kindles it, for the soul is driving
1753 Unic, 38 | of such great beauty, so kindly and so tender, than it is
1754 Unic, 3 | least, he showed me every kindness. This, too, I owe chiefly
1755 Unic, 38 | grateful to for several kindnesses.343 He had been a person
1756 Unic, 31 | cultivating detachment from our kindred and, unless they be persons
1757 Intr, 0 | liquid fire; ~By the full kingdome of that finall kisse ~That
1758 Intr, 0 | kingdome of that finall kisse ~That seiz'd thy parting
1759 Intr, 0 | street, or a woman in the kitchen, can help loving her?~
1760 Unic, 27 | dicta sunt mihi",220 and knelt down and died.~
1761 Unic, 15 | Cross. Anxious, like good knights, to serve their King without
1762 Unic, 39 | knew well that I would not knowingly fail to devote myself wholly
1763 Unic, 20(162)| with God?") or of Job iv, l7 ("Shall man be justified
1764 Unic, 39 | such torture that he would lacerate his own body. My confessor,
1765 Unic, 38 | this passage and when I lacked much that I now have; this
1766 Unic, 30 | grief; for, when a soul lacks the strength to throw any
1767 Unic, 27 | he repeated the psalm "Laetatus sum in hic quae dicta sunt
1768 Unic, 20 | were present),151 I have lain on the ground and the sisters
1769 Unic, 39 | of attacking me: some had lances; others, swords; others,
1770 Unic, 35(297)| Carmelites to possess houses, lands or money.~
1771 Intr, 0 | again and again into foreign languages. Probably no other book
1772 Unic, 19 | Reverence must suffer these lapses; for, when I consider what
1773 Intr, 0 | deaths of love; ~By thy larg draughts of intellectuall
1774 Intr, 0 | last three comprise the largest collection yet made of the
1775 Unic, 17 | described in speaking of this last-mentioned kind of water, which comes
1776 Unic, 28 | the eyes of the body. The last-named type, they say, is the lowest
1777 Unic, 30(234)| Hoja de lata. Lit.: "tinplate."]~
1778 Unic, 30 | like that with me. Now I am laughing; now I am greatly troubled.
1779 Unic, 20 | less than nothing.161 It laughs at itself and at the time
1780 Pref, 2 | specimen of her sustained laughter in the "Judgment . . . upon
1781 Unic, 36 | concluded, but to let the lawsuit continue. He was more definite
1782 Unic, 7 | that comes to convents from laxity in the observance of the
1783 Unic, 23(187)| in 1535, by a Franciscan lay-brother, Bernardino de Laredo. An
1784 Unic, 13 | composing speeches to Him, but laying their needs before Him and
1785 Unic, 16(137)| suspected of heresy, under the leadership of Dr. Aust'n Cazalla, a
1786 Unic, 27 | doest with a soul that Thou leadest to such heights as this.
1787 Unic, 8 | period through not having leaned upon this strong pillar
1788 Unic, 12 | is just about to take a leap and then is pulled back,
1789 Unic, 37 | University professorship, and lectures would have to be given in
1790 Pref, 4 | Penzol, of the University of Leeds. To these, to my colleague
1791 Unic, 36 | then, at the beginning of legal proceedings. The city sent
1792 Unic, 16(138)| of the autograph here: "Legant praedicatores."~
1793 Unic, 40 | which were in large and very legible print. "In the times to
1794 Unic, 32 | tolerated and considered quite legitimate in the world; that I had
1795 Unic, 40 | some time when they have leisure, for if they try to pray
1796 Unic, 39 | coming from Him who would lend me a hand, exactly as He
1797 Unic, 36(327)| this lady went to such lengths in the austerities which
1798 Unic, 25 | sometimes they are such lengthy speeches and are uttered
1799 Unic, 30(241)| after the third Sunday in Lent, the Saint could have read
1800 Unic, 34(283)| Luis de Leon substituted "trust" (confiar)
1801 Unic, 13 | meditates on the many other lessons which, if it is industrious,
1802 Pref, 2 | used to a priest. The word letrados is rendered literally "learned
1803 Pref, 2 | swoon"; elevamiento and levantamiento, "elevation"; embebecimiento, "
1804 Unic, 22 | His as though it were on a level with our miseries and with
1805 Unic, 39 | raindrops had been spears levelled at my breast, I think I
1806 Outl, 0 | Observance, P. Alonso Gonz‡lez, at St. Joseph's; in June,
1807 Pref, 2 | frequent exclamations, ÁV‡lgame Dios!, which can express
1808 Unic, 17 | with it as Jacob bore with Lia, for the Lord is showing
1809 Unic, 15 | devil, being altogether a liar, sends the soul any pleasure
1810 Unic, 10 | his riches and spend them liberally? It is impossible, I think,
1811 Unic, 7 | this they gave me as much liberty as is given to the oldest
1812 Unic, 35(300)| of St. Dominic to that of Licentiate [in English, to Bachelor
1813 Unic, 30 | This, I think, is a very lifelike illustration or comparison
1814 Unic, 12 | am referring here to the lifting up of the mind to a consideration
1815 Unic, 36 | though I thought it very much lighter than the heavy one which
1816 Unic, 28 | this way, by making a false likeness of Him. He takes the form
1817 Unic, 31 | trample earth's miserable limitations beneath his feet, he is
1818 Pref, 3 | whose discursiveness is not limited to his introductions, have
1819 Unic, 16 | transgressing my proper limits! For there is no reason
1820 Unic, 16 | there is no reason for lingering on it, for we shall never
1821 Unic, 23(186)| One of these links is mentioned in the preceding
1822 Unic, 35 | not afraid to walk among lions, each of which seems to
1823 Unic, 35 | rendering God nothing but lip-service. Why, if I had the chance
1824 Unic, 18 | pour not such precious liquor into so broken a vessel,
1825 Unic, 23(180)| a de la Visitaci-n, the Lisbon prioress who was credited
1826 Unic, 2(71) | inferring that St. Teresa had "listened only to the story of her
1827 Unic, 30 | hears Him spoken of, it listens, believing that He is Who
1828 Unic, 10 | speaking the absolute and literal truth when I say that, as
1829 Pref, 3 | I have aimed at extreme literalness, and have seldom sacrificed
1830 Pref, 1 | now was for this type of literature, it seemed to me that la
1831 Unic, 8(100)| the contact between his littleness and the greatness of God.]~
1832 Unic, 6 | live, but Thou, my Creator, livest in me.93 For some years,
1833 Unic, 13 | themselves fit only to catch lizards. We must always keep humility
1834 Unic, 34 | was with him once in the locutory, and so great was the love
1835 Intr, 0 | to come. But, despite the loftiness and sublimity of these themes,
1836 Intr, 0 | snapped asunder the bonds of logic and literary rule, she would
1837 Unic, 15 | that these are like great logs of wood being heaped up
1838 Unic, 39 | position, I went to a very lonely hermitage, of which this
1839 Unic, 5 | magnificence of God and His long-suffering to the soul. May He be blessed
1840 Unic, 16 | soon to die a death that he longs for; and in that agony it
1841 Unic, 31 | But the devils must have loosed most of their wrath on me
1842 Unic, 23 | could not fail to be the loser. Having resolved upon this,
1843 Intr, 0 | the Soul to God, the two loveliest of St. Teresa's opuscules,
1844 Unic, 28 | look upon such supernatural loveliness into confusion. I was so
1845 Unic, 40(358)| in the use of capitals or lower-case letters for the word "truth".]~
1846 Unic, 11 | from the great labour of lowering the bucket so often into
1847 Unic, 10 | it by reflecting on our lowliness and our ingratitude to God,
1848 Unic, 22 | not, we must serve Him in lowly offices and not sit down
1849 Unic, 5 | virtue to be grateful and loyal to anyone who liked me.
1850 Outl, 0 | SS. Isidro, Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier.~1726.
1851 Intr, 0(45) | Jer-nimo Graci‡n: Lucidario del verdadero esp'ritu,
1852 Unic, 38(338)| Christ, written in Latin by Ludolph of Saxony, a Carthusian,
1853 Pref, 4 | my colleague Miss Audrey Lumsden, to the Carmelite Fathers
1854 Unic, 32 | themselves -- especially of those Lutherans, for they were made members
1855 Unic, 24(193)| referring to small comforts or luxuries.]~
1856 Unic, 20(160)| Psalm liv, 7 [A.V., lv, 6].~
1857 Intr, 0(50) | full by P. Silverio, I, lxix.~
1858 Unic, 17 | will than it would of a madman, but leave it to its work,
1859 Unic, 23(180)| Such were the notorious Sor Magdalena de la Cruz of C-rdoba [and
1860 Unic, 25 | and I think I would have maintained against the whole world
1861 Unic, 5(86) | with confidence that the majority of the marks were not made
1862 Pref, 2 | considerable force --~Con esto, mal dormir, todo trabajo, todo
1863 Unic, 20(156)| Malachias iv, 2. A.V.: "Sun of Righteousness."]~
1864 Unic, 39 | ill with a most painful malady, which, as I do not know
1865 Unic, 26 | myself greatly tried and maligned about a certain matter,
1866 Unic, 10 | seen that on so foul and malodorous a dunghill He has planted
1867 Intr, 0 | translations of the Jesuit William Malone appeared as early as 1611;
1868 Pref, 4 | Meana, of the University of Manchester, and Don Pedro Penzol, of
1869 Unic, 36 | arranging it all without a mandate from the Provincial. It
1870 Unic, 20 | striking. One of them is the manifestation of the Lord's mighty power:
1871 Intr, 0 | sense -- a history of the manifestations of Divine grace in the writer'
1872 Unic, 34 | greatest majesty and glory, manifesting His great satisfaction at
1873 Unic, 33 | exclamation: "Oh, the greed of mankind! So you really think there
1874 Unic, 22 | gives it determination and manly strength so that it may
1875 Unic, 20 | not shown me the ways and manners in which it can to some
1876 Pref, 2 | quien temer, se van a la mano y pueden.~(Lit.: I mean
1877 Intr, 0 | bringing it into the innermost mansion of the Interior Castle,
1878 Unic, 31(245)| convent established near Mantes, in 1477, by B. Fran¨oise
1879 Unic, 31 | good-for-nothing) I would collect their mantles when they left the choir.
1880 Unic, 14 | spoken of the labour and manual effort with which this garden
1881 Intr, 0 | have written impeccable manuals or methodically ordered "
1882 Intr, 0 | companion worthy of himself, P. Manuel de Santa Mar'a. The results
1883 Pref, 2 | y por compana, es mas de maravilla.~(Lit.: Even now the Lord,
1884 Intr, 0 | graven upon the enduring marble of history but taken on
1885 Unic, 36(321)| Marchese, St. Peter of Alc‡ntara'
1886 Outl, 0 | absence: (LL 6). Visits the Marchioness of Villena at Escalona (
1887 Unic, 25(202)| Matthew viii, 23-7, St. Mark iv, 35-40 and St. Luke viii,
1888 Unic, 40 | who says that neither in market places360 nor in pleasures
1889 Unic, 2(71) | that, as this woman was of marriageable (i.e., mature) age, the
1890 Unic, 1 | and, when I read of the martyrdoms suffered by saintly women
1891 Unic, 38 | small as the Host, without marvelling at Thy great wisdom. I cannot
1892 Unic, 20(165)| Silverio, however, has the masculine pronoun el; I follow earlier
1893 Unic, 6 | I began by having Masses said for me, and prayers
1894 Intr, 0 | years later, Sir Tobias Mathew's version, known as The
1895 Unic, 2(71) | do well in the estate of matrimony", the editor's footnote
1896 Pref, 2 | so often colloquial and matter-of-fact in her language -- would
1897 Unic, 15 | implants in it a very much maturer fear which springs from
1898 Unic, 13(117)| the latter's well-known maxim: "Live in this world as
1899 Outl, 0 | by Philip II (F XXVII).~(May-June. Chapter-General of the
1900 Unic, 36 | been a meeting between the Mayor and certain members of the
1901 Lette, 0 | ended in June of the year MDLXII.370~
1902 Pref, 4 | Josˇ Castillejo, Don Luis Meana, of the University of Manchester,
1903 Unic, 39 | This vision will seem meaningless, but it has since brought
1904 | meanwhile
1905 Unic, 39 | to Him Who bestows on us measureless gifts, and Who can give
1906 Unic, 38 | creatures praise Thee, Who measurest things by our weakness,
1907 Intr, 0 | rebellion against academic mechanism of conventionality and style
1908 Unic, 19 | saying "Serve thou Me, and meddle not with this". This was
1909 Unic, 29 | relief to be found in these medicines: they are quite inadequate
1910 Intr, 0 | writer aspiring to a "golden mediocrity" -- but we should have lost
1911 Unic, 40 | had of myself there. As I meditated in this way, my soul began
1912 Unic, 13 | was alone there. It also meditates on the many other lessons
1913 Outl, 0 | Joseph's, Avila. Rafael Mej'a offers her a house at
1914 Intr, 0 | and the three volumes of Memorias historiales, in the National
1915 Unic, 39 | retrace that period in their memories. I have no desire, however,
1916 Unic, 23(185)| gentleman whose wife, Do-a Menc'a del çguila, was a cousin
1917 Unic, 38 | respects seemed to have mended his ways. He died without
1918 Unic, 10 | there will be no point in mentioning me, for to do so would bring
1919 Pref, 2 | form of address Vuestra Merced is translated "Your Honour" (
1920 Unic, 37 | realizing all the time how merciful was the place in hell assigned
1921 Unic, 22 | by so labouring they were meriting some great blessing. I do
1922 Unic, 14 | that it need not send Him messengers,119 but may speak with Him
1923 Unic, 21(166)| current; but it was spoken of metaphorically, in the sense of "brass
1924 Pref, 2 | diminutives, her characteristic metatheses and other forms of popular
1925 Intr, 0 | indiscretion would no doubt have meted out anything but a reward.~
1926 Intr, 0 | should have gained one more methodical writer aspiring to a "golden
1927 Intr, 0 | written impeccable manuals or methodically ordered "guides" to the
1928 Unic, 6 | wanted things to be done very meticulously and well. I had this unfortunate
1929 Unic, 6 | in wrongdoing and in my meticulousness and vanity. May the Lord
1930 Unic, 39(348)| Her cousin, Pedro Mex'a", according to Graci‡n.~
1931 Unic, 34(279)| child with the Viceroy of Mexico, and professed in the capital
1932 Unic, 27 | Saint Hilarion and to Saint Michael the Angel, for whom, with
1933 Outl, 0 | Convent at Alba de Tormes (8).~Mid February. Leaves Alba. Goes
1934 Intr, 0 | In the mid-eighteenth century, the Order determined
1935 Outl, 0 | at Medina del Campo; in mid-July, at Avila.~August-October.
1936 Outl, 0 | November. Goes to Toledo (mid-November: LL 291) and Malag-n; arrives
1937 Unic, 7 | break my fast until after midday -- sometimes not until much
1938 Unic, 25 | delectable and tranquil. Mild feelings of devotion which
1939 Unic, 4(80) | curandera lived, was over forty miles from Avila, whereas Do-a
1940 Unic, 39 | wanted to do something which militated grievously against God and
1941 Unic, 5 | when it goes so far that it militates against loyalty to God!
1942 Intr, 0 | also entered the homes of millions living in the world and
1943 Unic, 23 | have to do with the humble minded! This saint (for so I think
1944 Pref, 2 | self-importance was so intimately mingled with her devoutness. She,
1945 Unic, 29 | since he was one of the ministers whom He had placed in His
1946 Unic, 6 | greater length and in the minutest detail, the favours which
1947 Unic, 25(202)| Evidently a reference to the miracle recorded in St. Matthew
1948 Pref, 4 | Prior of the Cartuja de Miraflores, near Burgos, helped me
1949 Unic, 20(157)| suspect the omission of mirando: "He who is looking (down)
1950 Unic, 22 | so completely sunk in the mire that through their own fault
1951 Unic, 22 | there be, like myself, so miserably proud that, when he has
1952 Unic, 34 | blindness, what greater misfortune is there than to set a great
1953 Unic, 40 | deal; I had not the least misgiving lest it should be an illusion.
1954 Unic, 5 | for me in the way I was misled by those who had told me
1955 Intr, 0 | and elliptical style, a misplaced comma is sometimes enough
1956 Unic, 33 | return that he would not have missed going for anything. And
1957 Pref, 2 | and other forms of popular misspelling, her curious semi-phonetic
1958 Unic, 40 | is covered with a thick mist and remains darkened so
1959 Unic, 34 | prayer, for there is no mistaking their reality. The Lord
1960 Unic, 28 | infinitely distressed at his misunderstanding me when he was so earnestly
1961 Unic, 13 | practise prayer by encouraging misunderstandings about humility in them so
1962 Unic, 19 | our ingratitude nor our misuse of the favours that He has
1963 Unic, 21(166)| of "brass farthing" or "mite", much as the cuarto is
1964 Unic, 21 | able to pay at least a few mites166 of all I owe Thee; do
1965 Unic, 36 | punished by God who attempts to mitigate the perfection of the Rule
1966 Unic, 35 | I should not be getting mixed up in that commotion, the
1967 Unic, 40 | virtuous I should not cease mixing with them, and I should
1968 Unic, 29 | breathe: all he does is to moan -- not aloud, for that is
1969 Unic, 29 | it made me utter several moans; and so excessive was the
1970 Unic, 38 | with my bodily eyes is a mockery. What my soul desires is
1971 Unic, 25 | of them, I thought, were mocking me when I spoke to them
1972 Unic, 7 | when those who ought to be models on which all may pattern
1973 Unic, 13 | But bread must be taken in moderate proportions. When a soul
1974 Unic, 2(71) | alliance honorable pour moi", and Lewis's "The conversation
1975 Unic, 3(77) | translation of these, by Juan de Molina, had been published at Valencia,
1976 Pref, 4 | he or one of his Spanish monks could often suggest a possible
1977 Outl, 0 | the Count and Countess of Monterrey. On March 29, is at Salamanca (
1978 Unic, 38(338)| into Spanish by Ambrosio de Montesinos about 1502 under the title
1979 Intr, 0 | which forms part of the monumental series of Spanish classics
1980 Unic, 22(169)| follows is in the indicative mood: grammatically, therefore,
1981 Unic, 34(283)| interior locutions gave her the moral certainty which she describes.~
1982 Unic, 20(159)| sacram, aut contra bonos mores, abhorreas eorum visionem
1983 Unic, 27 | difficult to explain it to mortals, however much we may desire
1984 Unic, 24 | ordered me to practise certain mortifications which I did not find very
1985 Unic, 22 | said already. This little mote of deficient humility, though
1986 Unic, 17 | restless, importunate little moths that fly by night: just
1987 Unic, 20 | sundial, which is never motionless; though if it pleases the
1988 Unic, 33 | time where I was, without moving, and unable to speak, quite
1989 Unic, 28 | and then to see a very muddy stream, in an earthy bed
1990 Unic, 35 | But here the Lord has so multiplied their happiness that they
1991 Unic, 11 | should use it so that He may multiply our virtues.~
1992 Unic, 32 | that I was not given to murmuring or speaking ill of anyone,
1993 Pref, 3 | The same remark, mutatis mutandis, applies to the Poems.~
1994 Pref, 3 | past age. The same remark, mutatis mutandis, applies to the
1995 Unic, 27 | and also great truths and mysteries; for often what I understand,
1996 Unic, 40(363)| holy Mother refrained from naming this Order; but I know that
1997 Intr, 0 | Madrid, in 1597 and 1615; at Naples, in 1604; at Brussels, in
1998 Unic, 13 | by experience; this mere narration of my faults might be of
1999 Pref, 2 | hundreds of them enlivening her narratives and illumining her expositions --
2000 Intr, 0 | Memorias historiales, in the National Library of Spain, at Madrid,
2001 Intr, 0 | illumined and overshadowed, the naturalness and candour of her manner