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1 0, 9 | so he tells us, "a very great part of the night" in conversation
2 0, 10 | about which she knew a great deal from experience. On
3 0, 26 | with that of most other great mystics, there are various
4 0, 29 | those there are and to a great extent supply the need for
5 0, 33 | and none of them has any great doctrinal significance.
6 0, 38 | very radiant and wrote with great rapidity, and as a rule
7 0, 38 | impossible, for we know a great deal about the Saint's movements
8 0, 39 | gentleman who had been a great benefactor of the Reform,
9 0, 44 | Teresa. It makes, however a great many changes of its own,
10 0, 46 | cause my physical nature great distress; for the Lord has
11 0, 46 | kinds without feeling a great physical strain. May He
12 0, 48 | and who are persons of great learning. If I should say
13 0, 49 | Lord will be granting me a great favour if a single one of
14 1, 1 | with which to compare the great beauty of a soul and its
15 1, 1 | beauty of a soul and its great capacity. In fact, however
16 1, 1 | conception of the soul's great dignity and beauty.21 ~
17 1, 2 | Would it not be a sign of great ignorance, my daughters,
18 1, 2 | he came? Though that is great stupidity, our own is incomparably
19 1, 3 | these favours, it will be a great consolation to you to know
20 1, 3 | you can still praise His great goodness. For, as it does
21 1, 3 | in this our exile for so great a God to commune with such
22 1, 3 | and to love Him for His great goodness and boundless mercy.
23 1, 8 | unfortunate creatures and live in great peril. Let us rather think
24 1, 8 | free of them and it is a great thing that they should know
25 2, 5 | mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing
26 2, 10 | miseries we do ourselves a great disservice. We were saying
27 2, 11 | Mansion, it contains riches of great price, and any who can elude
28 2, 13 | we live! As I have said a great deal elsewhere, daughters,
29 2, 14 | castle, is the soul free from great peril in the Mansion which
30 2, 17 | this he would be working a great deal of harm. Let us realize,
31 2, 17 | indiscreet zeal, which may do us great harm: let each one of you
32 2, 17 | herself. As I have said a great deal to you about this elsewhere38
33 2, 18 | practice the devil can pluck great advantage and start habits
34 1 | Chapter only.39 ~Treats of the great importance of perseverance
35 1, 1 | me to avoid repeating a great deal of this, because I
36 1, 2 | condition. But it is a very great mercy that they should contrive
37 1, 2 | their position and there is great hope that they will get
38 1, 2 | hear, for after all it is a great thing to be able to understand
39 1, 4 | resistance, like one who to a great extent has lost hope of
40 1, 6 | of ourselves. Obviously a great deal of attention will be
41 1, 6 | to be cured and only the great mercy of God will preserve
42 1, 6 | soul will certainly suffer great trials at this time, especially
43 1, 7 | companionship. It is a very great thing for a person to associate
44 1, 7 | centre, for they will be of great help to him and he can get
45 1, 11 | you are doing yourselves great harm by pursuing your necessary
46 1, 3 | say this without tears and great confusion when I realize
47 1, 3 | Our Lady and consider how great she must be and what a good
48 1, 4 | small favour, but a very great one. I believe that, through
49 1, 5 | always rescues them, to their great profit, as He does also
50 1, 6 | course, referring to the great interior trials of which
51 2, 1 | think I might even say a great many -- and who, as far
52 2, 2 | people, except to express great sorrow at their trouble,
53 2, 2 | them. This, I think, is a great mercy on the part of God,
54 2, 2 | are at fault they gain a great deal in humility. ~
55 2, 3 | and it would be a very great advantage if we were prepared
56 2, 8 | their lives. They have a great desire for penance, so that
57 2, 8 | this reason they observe great discretion in their penances,
58 2, 9 | here, we shall be making a great mistake if we worry over
59 2, 9 | referring to demands is great humility, and it is the
60 2, 10 | nature, which is like a great load of earth and has not
61 2, 11 | that they differ a very great deal, though I may be wrong.
62 2, 11 | better. This latter is a great solace to souls whom God
63 2, 13 | religious Order, it would be a great thing for them to have someone
64 2, 13 | who always proceeds with great circumspection; they should
65 2, 13 | things of the world. It is a great advantage for us to be able
66 2, 13 | know ourselves. And it is a great encouragement to see that
67 2, 13 | they are not yet ready for great flights but they gradually
68 2, 13 | their parents. This is a great advantage, as I know. However
69 2, 13 | however, had to suffer great persecutions, they might
70 2, 13 | be pressing onward with great zeal, and trying to preserve
71 2, 14 | with His help, to be of great profit to them. May He be
72 1, 2 | King dwells, they are of great beauty and there are such
73 1, 4 | people shed tears over some great joy81; sometimes, in fact,
74 1, 6 | The soul experiences a great happiness84 when it realizes
75 1, 6 | Knowledge and learning are a great help in everything. ~
76 1, 7 | for my sins. This was a great grace granted me by Our
77 1, 8 | have written about this at great length elsewhere,87 I will
78 1, 8 | would not surprise me a great deal to learn this, for
79 1, 11 | seems to move upward with great velocity. Please God I may
80 1, 12 | obligations, though they are a great burden to us. ~
81 2, 2 | have been created by so great and wise a God there must
82 2, 3 | case we are speaking of, a great stream still runs from it
83 2, 5 | Thou art so surpassingly great, not because the signs of
84 2, 8 | granting him a surpassingly great favour, and another very
85 2, 8 | favour, and another very great one if he does not turn
86 2, 9 | we can obtain anything so great. The third is because the
87 3, 2 | vicinity of the castle. The great King, Who dwells in the
88 3, 2 | their good will, and in His great mercy desires to bring them
89 3, 3 | found Him within)100 it is a great help if God grants us this
90 3, 4 | himself should give God great praise, for he will be very
91 3, 5 | persons coming before a great and rich Emperor and then
92 3, 5 | for there still remains a great deal for the soul to do
93 3, 6 | and cause it to think a great deal. The fourth reason
94 3, 6 | himself when he is taking such great care about his actions that
95 3, 8 | understanding causes it great distress; but it must not
96 3, 8 | it does so it will lose a great part of what it is enjoying;
97 3, 8 | unworthiness to receive such great good and to occupy itself
98 3, 9 | because he also cherishes a great desire to do something for
99 3, 10 | have left Him Who in His great love was yearning to give
100 3, 10 | in this state than by a great number of souls to whom
101 3, 10 | so they can do the devil great harm and may well bring
102 3, 10 | harm and may well bring great advantage to the Church
103 3, 13 | near God, is moved with great joy. The experience does
104 3, 13 | This sort of life will be a great mortification to her, but
105 3, 14 | here; for I have written at great length of this Mansion,
106 1, 2 | door, God is showing them great mercy by granting them this;
107 1, 2 | which we speak, in such great solitude and with such contempt
108 1, 2 | shall need to do a very great deal before we can attain
109 1, 3 | is content. Blessed be so great a God! But observe, daughters,
110 1, 3 | grant you will be small or great. There is no better test
111 1, 3 | sense, so that we may give great praise to the Lord. ~
112 1, 4 | thoughts with it.116 Oh, what a great blessing is this state in
113 1, 4 | accursed one can do us no harm! Great are the gains which come
114 1, 6 | blessing, for there is a great difference between the false
115 1, 6 | credence to those who have great learning. For even if they
116 1, 6 | experienced these things, men of great learning have a certain
117 1, 9 | her the truth, which was a great consolation to her.123 ~
118 1, 11 | be the handmaidens of so great a Lord, since we cannot
119 2 | Should be studied with great care.~
120 2, 1 | this favour, we can do a great deal to prepare ourselves
121 2, 3 | everything? It will be a great help to us if we occupy
122 2, 6 | our small trials with the great trials which He suffered,
123 2, 8 | itself longing to suffer great trials and unable to do
124 2, 8 | more, it will experience great things. ~
125 2, 11 | with many tears and with great sorrow at being unable to
126 2, 11 | perhaps, it is a result of the great grief caused by seeing how
127 2, 11 | are condemned, though so great is God's mercy that, however
128 2, 12 | in trying to realize how great a sin it is to offend God,
129 2, 12 | Lord's help, by thinking a great deal about those things;
130 2, 13 | itself into His hands and His great love has so completely subdued
131 2, 14 | terrible?" "No, because My great love and My desire that
132 2, 15 | continually witnessing the great offenses which were being
133 2, 15 | as, when those who have great strength of love perform
134 2, 15 | strength of love perform great penances, they hardly feel
135 2, 15 | for His neighbour? Oh, the great delight of suffering in
136 3 | neighbour. This chapter is of great profit.~
137 3, 1 | it is God's will that so great a favour should not be given
138 3, 2 | brought them very, very great profit.138 Later, the Lord
139 3, 2(138)| provecho, harto -- "exceedingly great profit, exceedingly."] ~
140 3, 3 | little obscure. There is a great deal to be gained by entering
141 3, 8 | fault. For we do not require great favours from the Lord before
142 3, 8 | ought for a God Who is so great! May His Majesty be pleased
143 3, 10 | for, if we have attained great perfection here, we have
144 3, 12 | virtues are praised is a great thing, and, when we see
145 3, 13 | I have said a great deal about this elsewhere,145
146 4 | of prayer. Describes the great importance of proceeding
147 4, 3 | that is a loss every bit as great as are the favours He has
148 4, 4 | and the devil will take great pains about combating it
149 4, 5 | notwithstanding, the devil, with great subtlety and craft, has
150 4, 5 | by the martyrs gives us great cause for praising God.
151 4, 5 | of our rights! Oh, what a great mistake we make! May the
152 4, 9 | preparation we can make for such great favours. It may have been
153 4, 10 | that we could work for so great a God and Lord and Spouse.
154 1, 2 | now holds. Oh, my God, how great are these trials, which
155 1, 5 | considerations mitigate the great distress caused by such
156 1, 5 | experience has shown how great are the benefits it can
157 1, 5 | permitting this for its great advantage. Being quite clear
158 1, 7 | to say nothing of other great trials. It is true that
159 1, 7 | and there are always a great many. But oh, when we come
160 1, 8 | such a trial will know how great it is. For this is another
161 1, 8 | For this is another of the great trials suffered by these
162 1, 8 | hearing of a person from a great distance away. ~
163 1, 13 | value to them any more. This great God desires us to know that
164 1, 13 | creatures -- a point of great importance for what follows. ~
165 1, 16 | name, since they are such great favours of the Lord and
166 2 | sublime and the favours are great ones.~
167 2, 2 | enjoy Him, and this is a great grief, though a sweet and
168 2, 3 | Oh, my powerful God, how great are Thy secrets, and how
169 2, 5 | show ingratitude for so great a favour, and let him endeavour
170 2, 5 | many years by suffering great trials, she would have felt
171 2, 6 | unite pain -- and such a great pain! -- with tranquillity
172 2, 6 | has authority. Thirdly, great advantages accrue to the
173 3, 4 | After all, He talked a great deal with the Pharisees:
174 3, 5 | other word need be spoken; a great light comes to it; and all
175 3, 6 | The second sign is that a great tranquillity dwells in the
176 3, 8 | though this may be of very great consequence to it. ~
177 3, 9 | since He is Supreme Truth. Great, therefore, is the joy of
178 3, 9 | may himself have to suffer great trials on that account,
179 3, 10 | something of Our Lord with a great love, he thinks that the
180 3, 11 | that, if what is said is of great importance and involves
181 3, 16 | reason is that there is a great difference in the words
182 4 | all the same), and of how great courage is necessary if
183 4 | necessary if we are to receive great favours from His Majesty.~
184 4, 1 | to achieve union with so great a Lord and to take Him for
185 4, 2 | very timid and lowly for so great an undertaking, and I am
186 4, 2 | that it was so near to such great majesty, it might perhaps
187 4, 6 | daughters, the profit is so great that it cannot be exaggerated,
188 4, 6 | not have understood such great mysteries merely from seeing
189 4, 7 | believing, as we do, in His great power, we must clearly realize
190 4, 8 | the palace of a king or a great lord (I think they call
191 4, 8 | fruition of Him that that great blessing suffices it), He
192 4, 8 | remember that revelation of the great things it has seen. It will
193 4, 9 | everything that is in this great God is very great. He will
194 4, 9 | in this great God is very great. He will not allow her to
195 4, 9 | may enter. Blessed be such great mercy! Rightly shall those
196 4, 11 | will be sufficient to do us great harm. For the love of God,
197 4, 12 | that I have come to these great things of God (come to write
198 4, 15 | can be said of a favour as great as this? Such a soul would
199 4, 15 | clearly that it was not such a great matter for the martyrs to
200 4, 16 | esteem it very highly; for so great are the shame and the confusion
201 4, 18 | with the reception of this great favour, the favour itself
202 5, 1 | which reason I told you that great courage is necessary for
203 5, 1 | faith and confidence and great resignation, so that Our
204 5, 2 | straw more easily than this great and powerful Giant of ours
205 5, 3 | any movement. But now this great God, Who controls the sources
206 5, 4 | astounded when I reflect how the great power of this great King
207 5, 4 | the great power of this great King and Emperor manifests
208 5, 4 | to offend Him. Oh, how great, then, are the obligations
209 5, 5 | reason why the soul needs great courage, for the thought
210 5, 5 | would continually be in great affliction. When it reflects
211 5, 9 | is right outside itself, great things are revealed to it;
212 5, 9 | that it has reaped very great advantages and it has such
213 5, 9 | Thenceforward to live on earth is a great affliction to it, and, if
214 5, 9 | so quickly cannot be of great profit, the help which it
215 5, 9 | it gives the soul is so great that only the person familiar
216 5, 10 | employed in the service of so great a God. ~
217 6, 1 | HAVING won such great favours, the soul is so
218 6, 1 | itself alone it experiences great relief, but immediately
219 6, 2 | she seems to be feeling great interior security, especially
220 6, 2 | the other hand she is in great distress, for she is afraid
221 6, 2 | cannot avoid committing a great many. ~
222 6, 3 | proclaim abroad Who is this great God of Hosts. ~
223 6, 4 | for Thou didst make the great sea to draw back, and the
224 6, 4 | sea to draw back, and the great Jordan, and didst allow
225 6, 6 | sisters, concerning these great desires of the soul to see
226 6, 6 | that, and, thinking it a great thing to feel like this,
227 6, 6 | at the least, occurs with great frequency. ~
228 6, 8 | seldom do any harm. The great thing about this deception,
229 6, 9 | suppose that if we weep a great deal we have done everything
230 6, 9 | well watered and will be of great help in producing fruit;
231 6, 10 | the soul is so exceedingly great that it would like, not
232 6, 10 | invite everybody and have great festivities because she
233 6, 11 | Impelled as it is by this great joy, the soul cannot be
234 6, 11 | he was the herald of the great King. Other saints retire
235 6, 13 | like one who has drunk a great deal, but not like a person
236 7 | spiritual people may be, it is a great mistake for them not to
237 7 | Saints. This chapter is of great profit. ~
238 7, 1 | sins. This will be a very great mistake, for, the more they
239 7, 2 | remembers that it forsook so great a Majesty for things so
240 7, 2 | the favours it receives, great as they are like those which
241 7, 3 | to Whom her debts were so great. She thought nobody's evil
242 7, 5 | because, as their love was so great and they had received so
243 7, 6 | very intelligent may do a great deal of harm. ~
244 7, 7 | remembrance of whom brings us such great profit and encouragement.
245 7, 7 | have accomplished such great deeds for God; the last
246 7, 8 | There are some people (and a great many of them have spoken
247 7, 12 | kind of return for this great favour, and to suffer something
248 7, 13 | practise it often would be a great mistake. If while the soul
249 7, 13 | hindrance to the soul but a great help to it in everything
250 7, 13 | incapable of enjoying the great blessings contained in the
251 7, 14 | think it would be a very great thing to be enjoying these
252 7, 16 | resting-place and losing a great deal of time, without advancing
253 7, 16 | failed to realize that so great a loss could not possibly
254 8, 1 | creature -- He Who is of such great majesty and power. ~
255 8, 2 | being from God or no she had great misgivings, although the
256 8, 3 | confessor in a state of great perturbation.199 "If you
257 8, 3 | saw plainly that it was a great help to her to be habitually
258 8, 3 | not, for it brings such great benefits and produces such
259 8, 4 | had no idea whence such a great blessing had come to her.
260 8, 4 | up to His service, and a great purity of conscience; for
261 8, 5 | it, the soul is left in great loneliness; yet all the
262 8, 5 | saint and this is also a great help to us. ~
263 8, 6 | comes to understanding the great wonders of God, for we are
264 8, 6 | that no one else has so great an obligation to serve Him.
265 8, 7 | long or do the soul such a great deal of good, or bring it
266 8, 9 | has both spirituality and great learning if such a one can
267 8, 9 | might affect the Order. Great caution, then, is necessary
268 9 | warning. This chapter is of great profit. ~
269 9, 4 | and shows it things both great and secret. But you must
270 9, 5 | it fills the soul with a great terror. It is unnecessary
271 9, 9 | three or four of them, but a great many -- find that their
272 9, 10 | interior world, there is a great commotion; and then all
273 9, 10 | completely instructed in such great truths, has no need of another
274 9, 12 | Who is granting you these great favours, you will strive
275 9, 13 | that. If a person who had a great friend knew that insulting
276 9, 14 | knew someone who was in great distress because she had
277 9, 15 | The soul derives great profit from this favour
278 9, 15 | seeing a person who is a great help to us than if we had
279 9, 16 | realize that He is doing him a great favour in not casting him
280 9, 17 | be deceived, or to be in great peril, because the devil
281 9, 18 | imagination. When a person has a great desire for something, he
282 9, 22 | grants them brings with it a great many trials; and thus the
283 9, 23 | being given any of these great consolations; and they were
284 9, 23 | visions, which bring us great gain, and are very much
285 10 | already mentioned, and of the great profit that they bring.~
286 10, 1 | For, when you are, it is a great gain for the devil; he is
287 10, 2 | we are committing these great sins. I want, if I can,
288 10, 3 | us consider, sisters, the great mercy and long-suffering
289 10, 4 | before we imitate this great God in any way? Oh, let
290 10, 4 | as we have offended this great God, He has not ceased loving
291 10, 4 | passes quickly, it is a great favour for the Lord to bestow
292 10, 6 | convents of ours you take very great care never to lie about
293 10, 8 | this the soul experiences a great and lasting happiness. ~
294 11 | the soul and which are so great and impetuous that they
295 11, 1 | to her of how much this great God and Lord deserves to
296 11, 1 | she comes to experience great distress, as I will now
297 11, 1 | He is desirous of doing a great deal for us. ~
298 11, 2 | and are accompanied by great emotion, but they are all
299 11, 3 | however accustomed to enduring great pain, she cannot help doing
300 11, 4 | it does in fact involve great peril of death. Although
301 11, 4 | days afterwards it is in great pain and has not the strength
302 11, 6 | them later. It is well that great things should cost a great
303 11, 6 | great things should cost a great deal, especially if the
304 11, 8 | are present realize the great peril in which she lies,
305 1 | CHAPTER I ~Treats of great favours which God bestows
306 1, 1 | more to say. It would be a great mistake to think that; just
307 1, 1 | to be related about God. Great is the mercy that He shows
308 1, 1 | we do not understand the great secrets which they contain.
309 1, 2 | it so many blessings. O great God! Surely a creature as
310 1, 2 | have been in a state of great confusion and have wondered
311 1, 5 | which it is enjoying; the great delight of which the soul
312 1, 8 | of His Presence. She has great confidence that God will
313 1, 9 | understanding shall be opened. Great is the mercy which He grants
314 1, 10 | when she was going through great trials, shortly after God
315 2, 1 | Marriage, although this great Favour cannot be fulfilled
316 2, 1 | ourselves from God this great blessing would be lost.
317 2, 1 | just received Communion, in great splendour and beauty and
318 2, 2 | because this vision came with great force; for another, because
319 2, 3 | of God to the soul is so great a secret and so sublime
320 2, 6 | which I refer. For just as a great stream of water could never
321 2, 6 | there is a sun whence this great light proceeds, which is
322 2, 8 | it is able to do and how great is the extent of its obligations,
323 2, 8 | described elsewhere the great distress which this brings,
324 3, 3 | is little to be said. Her great grief is to see that all
325 3, 4 | second effect produced is a great desire to suffer, but this
326 3, 5 | persecuted again, they have a great interior joy, and much more
327 3, 6 | to die but to live for a great many years and to suffer
328 3, 8 | flames of a fire, however great, never travel downwards,
329 3, 12 | as they had before, with great occasions of devotion; if
330 3, 12 | souls into it, they lose the great weakness which was such
331 3, 15 | that they might lack so great a blessing? The thought
332 4 | in granting the soul such great favours and says how necessary
333 4, 2 | it. For the Lord gives it great determination, so that it
334 4, 2 | to His Majesty and what a great favour it is receiving,
335 4, 3 | on the one hand they have great hopes of not being among
336 4, 4 | That would be to make a great error. For His Majesty can
337 4, 4 | able to imitate Him in His great sufferings. ~
338 4, 7 | grace to do so, even at great cost to ourselves, as often
339 4, 7 | bearing of which does it a great deal of good; and later,
340 4, 8 | need not expect to make great progress. For the foundation
341 4, 8 | not wish it to reach any great height: in fact, it is for
342 4, 10 | not then understand what great gain can be derived from
343 4, 11 | must be the reason for the great penances done by many saints,
344 4, 13 | only after sore trials and great mortification -- even to
345 4, 14 | people, by which you can do a great deal for them, do not try
346 4, 14 | servants of all and show such great charity towards all, and
347 4, 14 | This would indeed be a great service to the Lord and
348 4, 17 | set down here it was with great reluctance, as I said at
349 4, 17 | houses, I think it will be a great consolation for you, in
350 4, 18 | never admit you. He is a great Lover of humility. If you
351 4, 18 | prioress, whose wishes this great Lord is pleased that you
352 4, 19 | yourselves in praise of the great God Who created it in His
353 4, 20 | whenever you read this, to give great praise to His Majesty and