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3002 Unic, 19 | unworthy even of the ground it treads upon. It has recourse to
3003 Unic, 28 | with what reason the devils trembled when Thou didst descend
3004 Unic, 5 | that inwardly I am almost trembling. It would be well, O my
3005 Pref, 2 | true, so far as the general trend of the argument is concerned --
3006 Unic, 38 | God and of a very great trengthening in virtue. May He be blessed
3007 Unic, 19 | to it -- lest the devil trick it into abandoning prayer,
3008 Unic, 19 | abandoning prayer, in the way he tricked me, by inspiring it with
3009 Outl, 0 | Jesœs [Roca] and Diego de la Trinidad leave for Rome, to attempt
3010 Unic, 38 | some very valuable golden trinkets and stones brought out for
3011 Unic, 25 | himself.204 He will have no truck with anyone who walks in
3012 Unic, 30 | there could be nothing truer, and nothing in which I
3013 Unic, 22 | resigned in spirit and yet trusting in God's greatness. Since
3014 Unic, 1 | not free. He was strictly truthful: nobody ever heard him swear
3015 Unic, 19 | some efficacy. Purify this turbid stream, if only that I may
3016 Unic, 19(148)| Domine, et rectum judicium tuum." The remainder of the verse
3017 Pref, 2 | living and breathing in the twentieth as she writes in her own
3018 Unic, 11(109)| The reference as to the twenty-second epistle of St. Jerome "Ad
3019 Unic, 10 | they have seen that in the twenty-seven years during which I have
3020 Unic, 7 | although it is now more than twenty-six years ago, I seem to have
3021 Unic, 4(82) | possibly have been less than twenty-three and was probably a little
3022 Unic, 4(79) | the ages of twenty-one and twenty-two respectively. [Previously
3023 Pref, 2 | upon than "dry rosemary twigs" which break at the slightest
3024 Pref, 2 | should fail to catch the twinkle in the eye.~
3025 Intr, 0 | edition, in 1635, and a two-volume edition, in 1636, came out
3026 Pref, 2(34) | See, for a typical example, Life, Chap. XXXVIII (
3027 Unic, 29 | tell them that this was tyranny. He used to show me ways
3028 Unic, 36(323)| ya que estaba en buenos tˇrminos, presents some difficulty.
3029 Unic, 36(307)| father of the Count of Uceda, as it was he with whom
3030 Unic, 33 | was given up, and remained unaccomplished, people became still more
3031 Unic, 23 | here,181 and, though I was unacquainted with any of them, I was
3032 Intr, 0 | language and her simple, unaffected style, of the work of the
3033 Unic, 8 | that all our efforts are unavailing unless we completely give
3034 Unic, 28 | that I remained in prayer unceasingly and contrived that everything
3035 Unic, 37(334)| own age -- a by no means uncommon phenomenon in Spain: so
3036 Pref, 2 | presence as will produce unconsciousness!36~
3037 Unic, 29 | within the breast, or of uncontrollable devotional feelings which
3038 Pref, 2 | How much more unconventional, then, is she likely to
3039 Intr, 0 | O thou undanted daughter of desires! ~By
3040 Unic, 5 | was a very learned man, undeceived me about certain things,
3041 Outl, 0 | Alphabet.~1539 (April-July). Undergoes treatment at Becedas.~1539 (
3042 Unic, 34 | the service of God and had undergone other persecutions. I do
3043 Intr, 0 | Silverio, upon the principles underlying this arrangement.~
3044 Unic, 15(126)| humility", P. B‡-ez wrote underneath it, in the original manuscript, "
3045 Unic, 17 | it, for it is He Who now undertakes the work of the gardener
3046 Intr, 0 | Braganza, Archbishop of Évora, undertook to bring out an edition
3047 Unic, 28 | be harshly judged, often undeservedly, all kinds of tales about
3048 Intr, 0 | Interior Castle, where, undisturbed by the foes that rage without,
3049 Unic, 39(350)| verbs are "do" (hace) and "undo" (deshace).]~
3050 Unic, 31(248)| Girls'," may seem an unduly colloquial word, but the
3051 Unic, 2(71) | semblaient pouvoir aboutir une alliance honorable pour
3052 Unic, 36 | caused me a good deal of uneasiness, for some of my helpers
3053 Unic, 31(248)| the Spanish is even more unexpected: ni-as, "young girls", "
3054 Unic, 20 | little bird has lost its unformed feathers. Now in Christ'
3055 Pref, 1 | excellent piece of work was unfortunately completed before P. Silverio'
3056 Unic, 11 | delight, yet in soil most unfruitful and full of weeds. His Majesty
3057 Unic, 13 | attachment to possessions. For so ungenerous are we that we imagine the
3058 Pref, 2 | use in Spain and might be unintelligible did she not thoughtfully
3059 Pref, 2 | he is dealing with this unique kind of woman -- it would
3060 Unic, 36 | they were condemning me unjustly, for they told me that I
3061 Intr, 0 | that had previously been unknown. P. Silverio's appendices
3062 | unlikely
3063 Unic, 29(232)| heart of the Saint has not unnaturally been the subject of the
3064 Unic, 6 | than I should wish, and at unnecessarily great length about others:
3065 Pref, 2 | rendered, might easily pass unnoticed:~
3066 Unic, 16(137)| sensation in the country. The unorthodox propaganda of the Cazallist
3067 Unic, 37 | they would treat me quite unpleasantly. This happened after I became
3068 Unic, 33 | I was now very unpopular throughout my convent for
3069 Unic, 36 | agreed to that course and the unravelling of this tangle in which
3070 Unic, 40 | together this story of my unruly life, though I have wasted
3071 Unic, 35 | sake, make us realize how unsafe we are amid such manifest
3072 Unic, 23 | possibly could, leaving nothing unsaid. I remember that, after
3073 Unic, 27 | for, though He remains unseen, so clear a knowledge is
3074 Unic, 26 | distress and try me greatly by unsettling my mind: yet I believe he
3075 Unic, 27 | everyone does not go about unshod217 or perform such severe
3076 Unic, 5 | me the gravity of these unsound principles, as I shall explain
3077 Unic, 14 | food elsewhere, but are so unsuccessful that they return. Just so
3078 Unic, 40 | if it seeks such a person unsuccessfully, the Lord will not fail
3079 Intr, 0 | less, his edition remained unsuperseded for over half a century --
3080 Unic, 23 | I felt that it would be unthinkable182 for me to discuss these
3081 Unic, 21 | afterwards, for I am entirely untrustworthy; despite my being the sort
3082 Unic, 27 | loud voice: even if he were unwilling to hear them, he could not
3083 Unic, 33 | which it would be extremely unwise and told me to send to Rome,
3084 Unic, 38 | this Most Holy Sacrament unworthily, and how complete is the
3085 Unic, 17 | find my soul is becoming unwrought, because it wants to be
3086 Pref, 1 | even, were based on an up-to-date Spanish text; and, in any
3087 Pref, 1 | strange if the recent years of upheaval in Spain did not lead to
3088 Unic, 22 | things if they are not so uplifted by the Lord, and how the
3089 Unic, 20 | as the impulse and the uplifting of the spirit have been
3090 Unic, 21 | after great dominion! What uprightness there would be in their
3091 Unic, 11 | full of weeds. His Majesty uproots the weeds and will set good
3092 Unic, 20 | much that the soul soars upwards, far above itself and above
3093 Unic, 8 | regaining what one has lost. Urges all to practise it. Says
3094 Pref, 2 | convenience's sake, St. Teresa's usage here being very elastic,
3095 Pref, 2 | meanings. Some of these usages cannot be conveyed in English;
3096 Intr, 0 | account of its practical utility in the training of religious.
3097 Pref, 3 | and fullest form I have utilized all the manuscripts reproduced
3098 Unic, 25 | making up the words and uttering them, for it is just as
3099 Unic, 16 | might praise the Lord. It utters a thousand holy follies,
3100 Unic, 26(208)| In 1559, Don Fernando de Valdˇs, Grand Inquisitor of Spain,
3101 Unic, 34 | penance, and has made him valiant in all that is good, and
3102 Unic, 32 | that I saw that they were valid and that the project was
3103 Unic, 35 | be travelling along the valley of humility. I cannot understand
3104 Unic, 4 | how highly they were to be valued. Had I understood this I
3105 Unic, 20 | deceptive, but true; that it values what has worth and despises
3106 Pref, 2 | cuando hay a quien temer, se van a la mano y pueden.~(Lit.:
3107 Unic, 24 | strangeness of the experience had vanished.~
3108 Unic, 25 | believed I could easily vanquish them all. "Come on, now,
3109 Unic, 40 | up with zeal; many were vanquished and laid low by them; others
3110 Intr, 0 | edition has some omissions and variant readings of such length
3111 Pref, 3(41) | this, as in the Psalms, the variation has been shown in square
3112 Unic, 11 | miseries of the body, and variations of season and changes in
3113 Unic, 8(100)| is referring to all the varied reactions produced in man
3114 Pref, 1 | upon me, and by a great variety of people. In Spain, a well-known
3115 Unic, 22 | this is but a drop in a vast sea of blessings"; for He
3116 Unic, 17(139)| fuerte . . . que no se le vaya en gostaduras. A difficult
3117 Unic, 9(101)| Ecce Homo, which is still venerated in the Convent of the Incarnation,
3118 Unic, 38 | hold this Order in great veneration, for I have had a great
3119 Unic, 24 | and to recite the hymn Veni, Creator, and I should be
3120 Unic, 16 | not one of them, it seems, ventures to stir, nor can we cause
3121 Unic, 6 | that I have not erred in venturing to speak of him; for though
3122 Unic, 36(325)| although apparently he did so verbally on July 3, 1563, it was
3123 Pref, 3 | passages or condensed their verboseness of expression, without,
3124 Unic, 39(350)| play upon words: the two verbs are "do" (hace) and "undo" (
3125 Intr, 0(45) | Jer-nimo Graci‡n: Lucidario del verdadero esp'ritu, Chap. V. She did,
3126 Unic, 14 | soul and which are already verging on the supernatural, so
3127 Unic, 37 | Thy love for me endure it? Verily, Lord, I believe that, if
3128 Unic, 20 | meaning of this verse in the vernacular, and that later, when I
3129 Pref, 2 | and" for "but", and vice versa, not to mention the conjunction
3130 Unic, 38 | there to assist her with the versicle. Halfway through the lesson
3131 Unic, 38 | she was giving him that vestment because of the service he
3132 Unic, 33 | amazing splendour of her vestments, though the light was not
3133 Unic, 7 | accounts for my tears and vexation when I took stock of my
3134 Intr, 0 | Jesœs Mar'a),55 at that time Vicar-General of the Discalced Carmelites,
3135 Unic, 34(279)| professed in the capital of the Viceroyalty in 1535. Returning to Spain,
3136 Unic, 31 | I also fell victim to another excess of zeal,
3137 Unic, 31 | we can fail to come out victorious.~
3138 Unic, 36 | delivered her from everything victoriously, to His glory and praise.~
3139 Unic, 16(133)| Lit.: "by seeing" (viendo), which reading P. Silverio
3140 Pref, 2 | this I have denied to her vigorous and pugnacious phrases the
3141 Unic, 19 | its desires become full of vigour, that it begins to abhor
3142 Abbr | the Letters follows Vols. VII-IX of P. Silverio. Letters (
3143 Unic, 1(59) | his second, Do-a Beatriz D‡vila y Ahumada, nine. Of these
3144 Outl, 0 | August 23-30: LL 376), Villacast'n (September 4: LL 377).~
3145 Outl, 0 | Campo (September 16) and villages near Pe-aranda. Though ill,
3146 Outl, 0 | Visits the Marchioness of Villena at Escalona (LL 6).~June
3147 Unic, 24 | sometimes I had done such violence to myself that it badly
3148 Unic, 13(114)| quod jubes et jube quod vis" (Confessions, Bk. X, Chap.
3149 Unic, 20(159)| bonos mores, abhorreas eorum visionem et judicia, tanquam stultas
3150 Unic, 23(180)| C-rdoba [and Mar'a de la Visitaci-n, the Lisbon prioress who
3151 Unic, 36 | to see the Provincial and visiting my convent. I was no more
3152 Unic, 7 | common practice to receive visitors, I should take no more harm
3153 Pref, 2 | Digo en algunas, porque he visto, que cuando hay a quien
3154 Unic, 11(109)| Eustochium", which describes how vividly there would come to him
3155 Unic, 16(133)| an error for "by living" (viviendo).]~
3156 Unic, 35(297)| proprium esse dicat, sed sint vobis omnia communia." Gregory
3157 Unic, 7 | everyone else; to recite, vocally, the prayers that I was
3158 Unic, 22(177)| clause is doubtful. Dar voces means to cry or shout aloud
3159 Unic, 14 | seems to be filling the void in our souls that we have
3160 Outl, 0 | Graci‡n and P. Yanguas. (Vole II, p. 194.)~(June 22. The
3161 Unic, 13 | penitent to bear without voluntarily submitting his understanding
3162 Outl, 0 | V.~1617. Spanish Cortes votes her patroness of Spain.
3163 Outl, 0 | Incarnation, Avila. Nuns voting for St. Teresa are excommunicated.
3164 Unic, 32 | honourably and keep our vows. Furthermore, the Rule was
3165 Pref, 2 | The polite form of address Vuestra Merced is translated "Your
3166 Unic, 20(153)| else where, that of the Vulgate.]~
3167 Unic, 39 | reciting the psalm Quicunque vult, I was shown so clearly
3168 Unic, 21 | one is delivering it. It wanders about like one who has been
3169 Pref, 2(*) | Peers, 3 vols., Sheed & Ward, New York, 1957.~
3170 Unic, 13 | understand ourselves and walk warily. The devil tells us that
3171 Unic, 18 | were no winter, but eternal warm weather, there would never
3172 Unic, 32 | depriving my body of its natural warmth. I never recall any time
3173 Unic, 7 | little did I profit by Thy warnings!~
3174 Unic, 39 | well our time is spent in warring and struggling for such
3175 Unic, 21 | that I have mounted this watch-tower whence truths can be seen,
3176 Unic, 8 | perils for which I was not watchful myself. And, above all,
3177 Unic, 11 | us great labour; or by a water-wheel and buckets, when the water
3178 Unic, 22 | draw the above-described waterwheel. Though their eyes are shut
3179 Unic, 25 | should ever feel its thoughts wavering about this, or find itself
3180 Unic, 5 | afterwards I actually found some wax on my eyelids.~
3181 Unic, 7 | all who are born I am the weakest and wickedest; but I believe
3182 Unic, 36 | notable harm to the common weal, that the Most Holy Sacrament
3183 Unic, 26 | described already. Everything wearies such a soul; everything
3184 Unic, 14 | Then is the proper time for weeding and rooting out the smaller
3185 Unic, 30 | or even perhaps for three weeks, or it may have been even
3186 Unic, 13 | as much as important and weighty things will trouble others,
3187 Intr, 0 | however, was not altogether welcomed by her Order, for the printers'
3188 Unic, 1 | good and anxiety for my welfare. But as I ceased to be a
3189 Unic, 37 | and he is poor and not well-born, he cannot approach him
3190 Unic, 23 | was greatly distressed and wept sorely; for I really desired
3191 Intr, 0 | let me work at my spinning wheel and go to choir and perform
3192 Unic, 40 | nor in pleasures nor wheresoever else he sought Him did he
3193 Unic, 8 | and for the great love wherewith He is continually seeking
3194 Unic, 33 | another, but had not the wherewithal, so there was no way of
3195 Unic, 23 | was like without prayer. Whichever way I looked, then, I was
3196 Unic, 39 | to me, as it were, in a whisper. My whole body quivered
3197 | whither
3198 Unic, 13 | foods are very pleasant and wholesome; and, if the palate is accustomed
3199 Unic, 32 | mud, and in it were many wicked-looking reptiles. At the end there
3200 Unic, 7 | born I am the weakest and wickedest; but I believe that anyone,
3201 Intr, 0 | abroad, her fame is still widespread and still growing. Her purely
3202 Unic, 3 | my father's brothers,75 a widower, who was a very shrewd man
3203 Unic, 30 | as of one who is always wielding fire and sword. It pictures
3204 Unic, 30 | escaping from the devil's wiles, I see quite clearly that
3205 Unic, 7 | those unhappy heretics, who wilfully blind themselves and proclaim
3206 Unic, 35 | seek reasons for what Thou willest, for Thou dost transcend
3207 Intr, 0 | translations of the Jesuit William Malone appeared as early
3208 Unic, 36 | suffer with the greatest willingness whatever it might please
3209 Unic, 20 | it by direct vision, and, willy-nilly, shuts its eyes to things
3210 Unic, 30 | sailing with a very calm wind: one makes great headway,
3211 Unic, 25 | Lord used to command the winds that blew over the sea to
3212 Unic, 18 | the taste of this Divine wine, they are very ready to
3213 Intr, 0 | have been powerless to take wing and give us those finest
3214 Unic, 19 | deception by which the devil wins his prey. When a soul finds
3215 Unic, 9 | there. I wished I could have wiped that grievous sweat from
3216 Unic, 23 | from the devil, and the wisest thing for me to do would
3217 Intr, 0 | She had so excellent a wit, and had so well absorbed
3218 Unic, 22 | This withdrawal from the corporeal must
3219 Unic, 7 | wicked life; for, after witnessing such a death and realizing
3220 Intr, 0 | were published by Abraham Woodhead in 1669-71, and a third
3221 Unic, 31(249)| better word here, but the wordplay in the last sentence of
3222 Unic, 39 | same payment to the last workers as to the first.354~
3223 Intr, 0 | logical -- but neither are the workings of the human heart. Her
3224 Unic, 29 | the cross, with exquisite workmanship, were portrayed the five
3225 Unic, 16 | few people who are not too worldly-wise to do what is incumbent
3226 Unic, 31 | remain, but they will all be worm-eaten. The tree will not be beautiful:
3227 Unic, 14 | wrong, I am going on without worrying about it. I know I have
3228 Unic, 31 | actions gradually become worthier. And if we take trouble
3229 Unic, 31 | not cease, I said: "If you wouldn't laugh at me, I should
3230 Unic, 31 | have loosed most of their wrath on me because all this happened
3231 Unic, 11 | try to seize it again, and wrest it, as they say, out of
3232 Unic, 26 | adversaries who will not wring his hands in despair.206
3233 Unic, 20 | day I have pains in the wrists, and in the entire body,
3234 Outl, 0 | Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier.~1726. Benedict XIII institutes
3235 Unic, 35(304)| Psalm xciii, 20 [A.V., xciv, 20].~
3236 Unic, 35(304)| Psalm xciii, 20 [A.V., xciv, 20].~
3237 Outl, 0 | Spanish America (F XXV, R XLVI, LL 87, P. Silverio, IX,
3238 Unic, 35 | CHAPTER XXXV - Continues the some subject --
3239 Outl, 0 | collaboration with P. Graci‡n and P. Yanguas. (Vole II, p. 194.)~(June
3240 | ye
3241 Unic, 8 | them strength to conquer. Yea, Life of all lives, Thou
3242 Unic, 36 | It was for this that I yearned. It was also a great comfort
3243 Unic, 21 | greater is the fragrance yielded by these flowers of the
3244 Unic, 13 | another great disadvantage in yielding to this temptation: namely,
3245 Unic, 20(153)| sicud passer solitarius yn tecto. The orthography given
3246 Unic, 11 | all things. Sweet is His yoke, and it is essential that
3247 Pref, 2(*) | vols., Sheed & Ward, New York, 1957.~
3248 Unic, 36 | forward another person, a zealous and devoted servant of God,322