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1 0, 10 | for this treatise, when God, Who disposes all things
2 0, 11 | at this beauty, which by God's grace can dwell in the
3 0, 12 | have the temerity to offend God. It was about this vision
4 0, 12 | sense of proportion. Please God they may have done me some
5 0, 14 | already. For the love of God, let me get on with my spinning
6 0, 14 | endangering its own spirit. Since God is free to establish an
7 0, 16 | secret things pass between God and the soul." ~
8 0, 19 | the image and likeness of God: the author laments that
9 0, 22 | become increasingly less and God's part increasingly greater.
10 0, 23 | essentially a gift from God. She also describes the
11 0, 23 | completely possessed by God. ~
12 0, 26 | interpretations, for the grace of God knows no limit or measure.
13 0, 27 | the secret judgments of God. But she evidently believes
14 0, 29 | account of the wonders which God's Spirit had wrought in
15 0, 48 | and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall
16 1 | favours which we receive from God; and shows how the door
17 1, 1 | a paradise, in which, as God tells us, He takes His delight.19
18 1, 1 | than to an understanding of God; for, as He Himself says,
19 1, 1 | difference between it and God as between creature and
20 1, 3 | secret things pass between God and the soul. You must think
21 1, 3 | very carefully; perhaps God will be pleased to use it
22 1, 3 | our exile for so great a God to commune with such malodorous
23 1, 3 | that it is possible for God to grant such favours during
24 1, 3 | could we help rejoicing that God should grant these favours
25 1, 4 | failing to edify those to whom God grants these favours, and
26 1, 4 | all know and believe that God grants still greater proofs
27 1, 4 | learn it by experience. For God's will is that no bounds
28 1, 6 | converse with none other than God Himself, there is nothing
29 1, 7 | the habit of speaking to God's Majesty as he would speak
30 1, 7 | that prayer at all -- and God grant no Christian may ever
31 1, 7 | rate, sisters, I hope in God that none of you will, for
32 1, 9 | upon subjects which, please God, shall, by His mercy, never
33 2 | sin, some part of which God was pleased to manifest
34 2, 1 | of life28 -- namely, in God -- when the soul falls into
35 2, 1 | First Principle, which is God, through Whom alone our
36 2, 2 | daughters, to pray earnestly to God for those who are in this
37 2, 2 | pleasing in the eyes both of God and of men, since they proceed
38 2, 5 | things not done by it. May God, in His mercy, deliver us
39 2, 5 | our prayers we must beg God to deliver us; for, if He
40 2, 5 | said that the favour which God had granted her had taught
41 2, 5 | went on at once to praise God; and, as a rule, when she
42 2, 8 | constraint or limitation. Since God has given it such dignity,
43 2, 8 | greatness and the majesty of its God. Doing this will help it
44 2, 8 | through the abundant mercy of God that the soul studies to
45 2, 8 | thinking upon the virtue of God than if we stay in our own
46 2, 9 | ourselves unless we seek to know God: let us think of His greatness
47 2, 10 | we turn from self towards God, our understanding and our
48 2, 10 | is not the same thing -- God forbid! It is only a comparison --
49 2, 11 | Oh, God help my daughters, how many
50 2, 12 | faculties given to it by God as part of its nature, have
51 2, 12 | may desire not to offend God and may perform good works.
52 2, 12 | for our help to come from God. May His Majesty grant us
53 2, 15 | have led many people whom God has granted favours to relapse
54 2, 17 | consists in the love of God and of our neighbour, and
55 2, 18 | they are. Here, glory be to God, we keep almost continuous
56 1, 4 | you have heard, in which God calls us. Or they come through
57 1, 4 | by means of truths which God teaches us at times when
58 1, 4 | feeble such prayers may be God values them highly. You
59 1, 6 | vanquish devils. But, oh, my God and Lord, how everything
60 1, 6 | only the great mercy of God will preserve us from death.
61 1, 8 | only what is the will of God. It is a curious thing:
62 1, 8 | have only just been born: God grant that they have even
63 1, 9 | resist outward trials if God will only grant you inward
64 1, 9 | conformity with the will of God. As I shall say later, you
65 1, 10 | for even out of your fall God will bring good, just as
66 1, 10 | themselves, but in the mercy of God, and they will see how His
67 1, 11 | more every day -- please God that it may come to realize
68 1, 12 | nature and what we owe to God, and continually imploring
69 1, 1 | those who by the mercy of God have overcome in these combats,
70 1, 2 | spot. Oh, my Lord and my God! How canst Thou wish us
71 1, 2 | If that is indeed so, my God, let us die with Thee, as
72 1, 2 | pleasure consists in pleasing God? Remember that all this,
73 1, 2 | we cannot be certain that God will give us His hand and
74 1, 3 | shall not complain that God ceased giving me all the
75 1, 3 | for me to do but approach God and trust in the merits
76 1, 4 | are always talking about God, continually engaging in
77 1, 5 | account the judgments of God. ~Personally, I think that
78 1, 5 | that you are vassals of God; do not try to get so much
79 1, 5 | deserved. For we have offended God, and, however faithfully
80 1, 6 | consider what they do for God, and we shall then see how
81 1, 6 | works. Yet do not suppose God has any need of our works;
82 1, 7 | we do for so generous a God, Who died for us and created
83 1, 8 | is true humility, even if God never grants the soul favours,
84 2, 2 | that they are suffering for God's sake, and thus never really
85 2, 2 | quickly. For often it is God's will that His elect should
86 2, 2 | great mercy on the part of God, and even though they are
87 2, 4 | to the poor. But I think God would rather I were resigned
88 2, 6 | some of their reputation. God often grants them grace
89 2, 6 | served Him, for this our God is good indeed. And yet
90 2, 7 | surrender of our wills to God and order our lives as His
91 2, 7 | if we are truly humble, God, the Physician,75 will come
92 2, 8 | habit of always serving God at a snail's pace! As long
93 2, 8 | tell you about that! Please God I have got farther than
94 2, 11 | great solace to souls whom God has brought so far, while
95 2, 12 | was in any way pleasing to God), none the less, when I
96 2, 12 | offer fervent praises to God. Now if I, who am so worthless
97 2, 12 | because, if they come from God, they come laden with love
98 2, 14 | with these desires that God gives us to help others,
99 1, 3 | to the consolations which God gives, and do much more
100 1, 4 | nature, though, of course, God plays a part in the process (
101 1, 5 | our own nature and end in God, whereas spiritual consolations
102 1, 5 | consolations have their source in God, but we experience them
103 1, 6 | realizes what it is doing for God's sake; but it sheds a few
104 1, 7 | they eventually lead one to God. And this is an experience
105 1, 7 | even so, they are a gift of God. Most of the souls which
106 1, 7 | various acts, and in praising God and rejoicing in His goodness
107 1, 8 | determination to try to please God in everything, and to endeavour,
108 1, 9 | rule, fly so fast that only God can restrain them; which
109 1, 9 | I thought, occupied with God and recollected in Him,
110 1, 10 | spending in the presence of God. Yet the soul may perhaps
111 1, 11 | with great velocity. Please God I may remember to explain
112 1, 12 | everything for the love of God. Similarly we are obliged
113 1, 13 | Mansion, as, if it please God, we shall explain. ~
114 2, 1 | GOD help me in this task which
115 2, 1 | leads to a desire to please God and to have fruition of
116 2, 2 | I call consolations from God, and elsewhere have termed
117 2, 2 | know who by the mercy of God have experienced it. To
118 2, 2 | created by so great and wise a God there must be many secrets
119 2, 2 | little thing created by God there is more than we realize,
120 2, 4 | from its source, which is God, and, when it is His Majesty'
121 2, 4 | said it has its source in God and ends in ourselves --
122 2, 5 | must be! O my Lord and my God! How wondrous is Thy greatness!
123 2, 7 | about it: by the mercy of God I would rather die a thousand
124 2, 8 | some way with the will of God; but it is by the effects
125 2, 9 | thing is that we should love God without any motive of self-interest.
126 2, 9 | it is given only to whom God wills to give it and often
127 3, 3 | here. When we are seeking God within ourselves (where
128 3, 3 | it is a great help if God grants us this favour. Do
129 3, 3 | a truth -- namely, that God is within us. But it is
130 3, 3 | have begun to think about God at all. I cannot say where
131 3, 3 | it happens only when God is pleased to grant us this
132 3, 4 | within himself should give God great praise, for he will
133 3, 6 | leave itself in the hands of God, and do what He wills it
134 3, 6 | possibly can to the will of God. The third reason is that
135 3, 6 | important and pleasing thing in God's eyes is our remembering
136 3, 6 | desiring the greater glory of God or of rejoicing in the glory
137 3, 6 | would only spoil everything. God gave us our faculties to
138 3, 6 | perform their office until God gives them a better one. ~
139 3, 7 | to remember that it is in God's presence and Who this
140 3, 7 | s presence and Who this God is. If feeling this should
141 3, 8 | below the consolations of God already mentioned, and is
142 3, 8 | fixed so firmly upon its God that this disturbed condition
143 3, 9 | this prayer is granted by God Our Lord. It is clear that
144 3, 9 | this kind of prayer, and God works many more wonders
145 3, 9 | relating to the service of God than it was before and give
146 3, 9 | than ever not to offend God (of Whom, however, it has
147 3, 9 | health now believes that in God he can do everything, and
148 3, 9 | endures these trials for God's sake, His Majesty will
149 3, 9 | desire to do something for God. The better he gets to know
150 3, 9 | to know the greatness of God, the better he comes to
151 3, 9 | tasted the consolations of God, he sees that earthly things
152 3, 9 | commits offenses against God -- when that happens, everything
153 3, 9 | place because once or twice God has granted a soul this
154 3, 10 | from occasions of offending God. For as yet the soul is
155 3, 10 | the lot of anyone to whom God has granted this favour
156 3, 10 | advantage to the Church of God. He may see nothing else
157 3, 10 | free from these perils. May God free you from pride and
158 3, 12 | conscious of anything concerning God. She was cured by being
159 3, 13 | something that really comes from God, there may be languor, both
160 3, 13 | when it finds itself near God, is moved with great joy.
161 3, 13 | they can be certain that God is not calling them to anything
162 1 | the soul is united with God. Describes how we may know
163 1, 2 | more than reach the door, God is showing them great mercy
164 1, 3 | need bodily strength if God our Lord does not give it
165 1, 3 | content. Blessed be so great a God! But observe, daughters,
166 1, 3 | it may live more fully in God. This is a delectable death,
167 1, 3 | order to come closer to God, the soul appears to have
168 1, 3 | dead. Oh, the secrets of God! I should never weary of
169 1, 3(112) | order to come closer to God, that I do not know, etc." ~
170 1, 4 | the favour was a gift of God, or if the devil was transfigured
171 1, 4 | this is indeed union with God,113 the devil cannot enter
172 1, 4 | understand a thing so secret that God will not even entrust our
173 1, 4(115) | seen by the devil unless God blinds him in that respect."
174 1, 4 | which come to the soul with God working in it and neither
175 1, 5 | this is indeed union with God" and suggesting that there
176 1, 5 | not like the transports of God, nor is there the same delight
177 1, 6 | some favour has come from God; His Majesty has put it
178 1, 6 | instinct118 to prompt them. As God uses them to give light
179 1, 6 | but are true servants of God, they will never be surprised
180 1, 7 | who does not believe that God can do much more than this,
181 1, 7 | be true of you, but trust God more and more, and do not
182 1, 8 | here is this soul which God has made, as it were, completely
183 1, 8 | shorter than it really is. God implants Himself in the
184 1, 8 | cannot120 possibly doubt that God has been in it and it has
185 1, 8 | in it and it has been in God; so firmly does this truth
186 1, 8 | that, although for years God may never grant it that
187 1, 9 | can be put there only by God. I know of a person who
188 1, 9 | who had not learned that God was in all things by presence
189 1, 9 | presence and power and essence; God granted her a favour of
190 1, 9 | whom she asked in what way God was in us (until God granted
191 1, 9 | way God was in us (until God granted him an understanding
192 1, 9 | know, it is the work of God. But I know I am speaking
193 1, 9 | union of the whole soul with God but only union of one of
194 1, 9 | other kinds of favour which God grants the soul. In all
195 1, 9 | all-powerful,124 and as it is God Who does it and we, however
196 2, 1 | but when the soul to which God grants these favours prepares
197 2, 2 | no one could invent but God -- and how it comes from
198 2, 3 | wonders and the wisdom of our God. What, then, would it be
199 2, 4 | utilize the general help which God gives to us all, and to
200 2, 5 | is hid in Christ, or in God (for that is the same thing),
201 2, 6 | see what we can do, with God's favour. May His Majesty
202 2, 6 | that we can subtract from God, or add to Him. But of course
203 2, 6 | subtract from, nor add to, God, but we can subtract from,
204 2, 6 | we can in that respect, God will take this tiny achievement
205 2, 7 | to do. Then we shall see God and shall ourselves be as
206 2, 7 | when I speak of seeing God, I am referring to the way
207 2, 8 | butterfly. Oh, greatness of God, that a soul should come
208 2, 8 | hidden in the greatness of God, and closely united with
209 2, 8 | solitude, and for all to know God. And hence, when it sees
210 2, 8 | And hence, when it sees God being offended, it becomes
211 2, 8 | as I have said, if after God comes to a soul here on
212 2, 9 | Here is something to praise God for -- namely, that it knows
213 2, 9 | dissatisfied, especially when God has again and again given
214 2, 9 | All that it can do for God seems to it slight by comparison
215 2, 9 | cause it to sin against God. Everything wearies it,
216 2, 10 | could say: anyone to whom God has granted this favour
217 2, 10 | our power to do that until God is pleased once again to
218 2, 11 | its life in this exile is God's will. And even this is
219 2, 11 | resigned to the will of God, as we shall see later.
220 2, 11 | to act in conformity with God's will, but it does so with
221 2, 11 | caused by seeing how often God is offended, and how little
222 2, 11 | condemned, though so great is God's mercy that, however evil
223 2, 12 | Oh, the greatness of God! Only a few years since --
224 2, 12 | keenly as the soul does now. God help me! If I were able
225 2, 12 | great a sin it is to offend God, and in reflecting that
226 2, 13 | to the same matter) that God put her in the cellar of
227 2, 13 | desires anything save that God shall do with it what He
228 2, 13 | wills. Never, I think, will God grant this favour save to
229 2, 13 | consenting. Oh, goodness of God, that all this should be
230 2, 14 | sisters, you see what our God does to the soul in this
231 2, 15 | suffering in doing the will of God! But the constant sight
232 3 | which, with the help of God, the soul can attain, and
233 3, 1 | and see something of what God gives her in this state.
234 3, 1 | own part I believe it is God's will that so great a favour
235 3, 1 | describing the favours given by God to those who love and serve
236 3, 2 | should profit by the favours God had shown her, she would
237 3, 2 | swerving from the law of God; I am referring to those
238 3, 3 | whatever is the will of God. Oh, how many of us there
239 3, 3 | our wills to the will of God. ~
240 3, 4 | itself in peril of losing God, or sees that He is offended --
241 3, 4 | needed by the Church of God. For this soul sees clearly
242 3, 5 | prevent union with the will of God, nor do they cause a restless,
243 3, 6 | true union with the will of God. This is the union which
244 3, 7 | complete union with the will of God. ~
245 3, 8 | conformity with the will of God that I shall not grieve
246 3, 8 | in the way we ought for a God Who is so great! May His
247 3, 9 | be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good
248 3, 9 | the love you will have for God; for so dearly does His
249 3, 10 | its roots in the love of God. Since this is so important,
250 3, 10 | vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from
251 3, 11 | prayer, think that, for God's sake, they would be glad
252 3, 11 | they have not done ---- ! God save us from having to listen
253 4, 1 | come to the last Mansion. God grant I may remember it
254 4, 2 | will often have heard that God betrothes Himself to souls
255 4, 5 | a large number of people God can draw to Himself through
256 4, 5 | great cause for praising God. Think of a maiden like
257 4, 5 | received such favours from God! What did they do but endeavour
258 4, 6 | at one with the will of God, as has been said, how can
259 4, 6 | justified in asking this -- God has been abundantly merciful
260 4, 6 | continual intercourse with God Himself, and could listen
261 4, 7 | invariably followed the will of God, it is clear that it would
262 4, 7 | withdraw it from the love of God and to persuade it to indulge
263 4, 8 | we must continually ask God in our prayers to keep us
264 4, 8 | suppose, then, that when God brings a soul to such a
265 4, 9 | set out to be the bride of God Himself, and has already
266 4, 10 | could work for so great a God and Lord and Spouse. May
267 1, 2 | which it now holds. Oh, my God, how great are these trials,
268 1, 2 | deep into suffering for God's sake. The reason for this
269 1, 3 | what happens to those whom God grants such favours, at
270 1, 4 | in it this is a gift of God, and not in the least due
271 1, 4 | it breaks into praises of God, but as though He were being
272 1, 4 | observing the favours which God is granting it, the soul
273 1, 4 | the honour and glory of God more than its own honour
274 1, 4 | that it can be the cause of God's being even once praised --
275 1, 5 | persecutors are not offending God, but that His Majesty is
276 1, 6 | illnesses do. For, after all, God gives us no more than we
277 1, 8 | thinks that people to whom God grants these favours must
278 1, 8 | that because of their sins God will permit them to be deceived --
279 1, 8 | spirit than a spirit of God, yet, as it is a state which
280 1, 8 | as if it has never known God and never will know Him,
281 1, 9 | think herself cast off by God. For there are many things
282 1, 11 | to wait upon the mercy of God, Who suddenly, at the most
283 1, 12 | torment it does not offend God, and would not do so for
284 1, 12 | smallest spark of any love for God, nor has it ever done so.
285 1, 13 | them any more. This great God desires us to know that
286 1, 14 | of charity and to hope in God's mercy, which never fails
287 2, 2 | is not even thinking of God, he is awakened by His Majesty,
288 2, 2 | that it has been called by God, so much so that sometimes,
289 2, 3 | to stir. Oh, my powerful God, how great are Thy secrets,
290 2, 4 | it of the presence of its God. Now, if this is so, you
291 2, 4 | just been wondering if my God could be described as the
292 2, 5 | let him endeavour to serve God and to grow better all his
293 2, 6 | determination to suffer for God's sake and to desire to
294 2, 8 | soul's desires to enjoy God in any way painful. This
295 3 | He is pleased to do so, God speaks to the soul. Gives
296 3, 1 | is another way in which God awakens the soul, and which,
297 3, 1(159) | or intellectual locutions God imprints what He is about
298 3, 2 | because the service of God does not consist in things
299 3, 3 | first, for, if they are of God, dispensing with them will
300 3, 4 | locutions, these may come from God, in any of the ways I have
301 3, 4 | your locutions come from God, you will for that reason
302 3, 5 | do with their coming from God. The surest signs that one
303 3, 6 | ready to sing praises to God. Oh, Lord, if there is such
304 3, 7 | its belief that, though God may use other means incomprehensible
305 3, 7 | time that they came from God have passed away. So these
306 3, 7 | the honour and service of God but presenting considerable
307 3, 7 | harmful not to believe that God is powerful and can do works
308 3, 9 | come from the Spirit of God, it is right that we should
309 3, 10 | that these things are of God, and the effects of these
310 3, 10 | of locutions coming from God will not, I think, be deceived
311 3, 11 | confident that they are of God, although not to such an
312 3, 11 | insight and a servant of God, even though one may understand
313 3, 11 | evident that they are of God. For this is His Majesty'
314 3, 18 | that the spirit is not of God; for it is quite certain
315 3, 18 | nothing but the honour of God rather than being mindful
316 3, 18 | the least from the will of God and its certainty that it
317 3, 19 | the locutions come from God there is no such remedy,
318 4 | Treats of occasions when God suspends the soul in prayer
319 4, 2 | am certain that, unless God granted us strength,163
320 4, 3 | remembers or hears spoken by God. His Majesty is moved with
321 4, 3 | When it is thus cleansed, God unites it with Himself,
322 4, 4 | fully awake to the things of God or had such light or such
323 4, 6 | concerning the greatness of God remains so firmly in the
324 4, 6 | bound to believe Him to be God, the soul would adore Him
325 4, 7 | bush, but only as much as God willed him to;167 yet, if
326 4, 7 | willed him to;167 yet, if God had not revealed secret
327 4, 7 | know and believe Him to be God, he would not have taken
328 4, 7 | understanding the hidden things of God; rather, believing, as we
329 4, 8 | The soul becomes one with God. It is brought into this
330 4, 8 | it is clear that, since God dwells in them, He must
331 4, 8 | of the supernatural than God has been pleased to reveal
332 4, 9 | that, if the soul to whom God has given these secrets
333 4, 9 | enraptured you can be sure that God is taking her entire soul
334 4, 9 | everything that is in this great God is very great. He will not
335 4, 10 | doing, or can ever do, for a God Who is pleased to communicate
336 4, 11 | great harm. For the love of God, then, sisters, let us profit
337 4, 12 | to these great things of God (come to write about them,
338 4, 15 | desires it has to be used for God in any and every way in
339 4, 15 | so as to use them all for God, and it would like everything
340 5 | gives an example of how God exalts the soul through
341 5 | something of this favour which God grants in a way so delectable.
342 5, 1 | necessary for anyone in whom God is to work these favours,
343 5, 1 | certainty that it is caused by God. ~
344 5, 2 | certain person who said that God's will seems to be to show
345 5, 3 | movement. But now this great God, Who controls the sources
346 5, 5 | itself upon the mercy of God; and, since it has nothing
347 5, 6 | never had anything to offer God or to give up for His sake.
348 5, 10 | knowledge of the greatness of God: the more we see of this,
349 5, 10 | the service of so great a God. ~
350 6, 1 | frequently and tearfully begs God to take it out of this exile.
351 6, 2 | especially when alone with God, on the other hand she is
352 6, 2 | from the commandments of God that it leads to Heaven)
353 6, 3 | God gives these souls the keenest
354 6, 3 | help one soul to praise God more; a woman in this state
355 6, 3 | abroad Who is this great God of Hosts. ~
356 6, 4 | will! Have pity on her, my God; and dispose things so that
357 6, 5 | knowledge of the mercy of God and of His greatness, which
358 6, 6 | resign itself to the will of God, and you can echo the words
359 6, 7 | reasons which have to do with God but this will not be so
360 6, 7 | so whenever they think of God or hear Him spoken of) that
361 6, 7 | rather than their love of God, which has excited their
362 6, 9 | Let the tears come when God is pleased to send them:
363 6, 10 | like, not to rejoice in God in solitude, but to tell
364 6, 10 | calls upon all to praise God cannot possibly have come
365 6, 11 | namely, the praises of their God. I knew one of these, called
366 6, 11 | madness, sisters! If only God would give it to us all!
367 6, 11 | there are so few to proclaim God's praise that it is not
368 6, 12 | than in the praises of God, which we have so many reasons
369 6, 13 | namely, the praises of God. Let us join with this soul,
370 7 | sins by the souls to Whom God grants the favours aforementioned.
371 7, 1 | enjoyment of such favours by God, they will know what I am
372 7, 1 | more they receive from our God, the greater grows their
373 7, 2 | knowledge of the greatness of God. It is aghast at having
374 7, 3 | she might die so as to see God, but was desiring death
375 7, 3 | there was no one with whom God had borne for so long and
376 7, 4 | thought that they may lose God, but this happens seldom.
377 7, 4 | Their sole fear is that God may let them out of His
378 7, 4 | there they will not be with God. ~
379 7, 5 | However favoured by God a soul may be, I should
380 7, 5 | greatness and majesty of God, they would find them terribly
381 7, 7 | accomplished such great deeds for God; the last thing we should
382 7, 8 | of meditation is to seek God, and once He is found, and
383 7, 9 | itself which it is making to God as did our father Elias?193
384 7, 10 | will, and the presence of God is not felt, we must needs
385 7, 10 | we have to take to please God -- namely, that of keeping
386 7, 11 | thinking of the favour which God bestowed upon us by giving
387 7, 12 | referring to which those whom God has raised to supernatural
388 7, 12 | has received so much from God should forget all these
389 7, 13 | so with everyone, since God leads souls by many ways,
390 7, 15 | faith and knew that He was God and Man; and, although she
391 7, 16 | person who was a servant of God about my method of prayer,
392 8 | Treats of the way in which God communicates Himself to
393 8, 2 | I saw a person to whom God had granted this favour,
394 8, 2 | But as to its being from God or no she had great misgivings,
395 8, 3 | be habitually thinking of God wherever she went and to
396 8, 3 | constant desires to please God and such scorn for everything
397 8, 4 | recognized as the gift of God and such feelings could
398 8, 4 | a gift from the hand of God. And although, as I believe,
399 8, 4 | brings a special knowledge of God, and from this constant
400 8, 4 | we know quite well that God is present in all that we
401 8, 6 | understanding the great wonders of God, for we are not capable
402 8, 6 | the greatest services to God Who has so many ways of
403 8, 6 | feels that he is serving God less than anyone else on
404 8, 7 | continual occupation with God and its fixing of the thought
405 8, 7 | he would not do so often. God is so faithful that He will
406 8, 8 | above, and these favours of God are withdrawn from it, His
407 8, 8 | sign that they are not of God. It will be well at first
408 8, 10 | to be better servants of God; but sometimes it is the
409 8, 10 | sometimes it is the weakest whom God leads by this road; and
410 9, 2 | do so. And that is what God does, too. ~
411 9, 4 | invariably the soul on which God bestows this favour remains
412 9, 7 | remember this favour which God grants to the soul, and
413 9, 7 | this sublime communion with God. ~
414 9, 10 | that this favour comes from God. However often it may be
415 9, 10 | confessor insinuates this fear, God allows the soul to begin
416 9, 11 | themselves, and a soul to whom God has granted such a favour
417 9, 11 | whether they proceed from God or from the imagination
418 9, 12 | you should or that it is God Who is teaching you. God
419 9, 12 | God Who is teaching you. God is very anxious for us to
420 9, 12 | if these things be not of God, they will do you no harm
421 9, 12 | will suppose that it is God Who is granting you these
422 9, 15 | when you learn or hear that God is granting souls these
423 9, 22 | thing is to will only what God wills, for He knows us better
424 9, 24 | themselves to greater efforts in God's service by thinking of
425 9, 24 | for the greater honour of God, it were necessary that
426 10 | Speaks of other favours which God grants to the soul in a
427 10, 1 | itself in loving and praising God. His Majesty also communicates
428 10, 2 | which it seems to see within God Himself. These are not visions
429 10, 2 | how all things are seen in God, and how within Himself
430 10, 2 | are acting when we offend God, since it is within God
431 10, 2 | God, since it is within God Himself -- because we dwell
432 10, 3 | Let us imagine that God is like a very large and
433 10, 3 | palace, then, as I say, is God Himself. Now can the sinner
434 10, 3 | itself -- that is, within God. Oh, fearful thought, worthy
435 10, 3 | mercy and long-suffering of God in not casting us straight
436 10, 3 | thing in the world that God our Creator should suffer
437 10, 4 | before we imitate this great God in any way? Oh, let us not
438 10, 4 | have offended this great God, He has not ceased loving
439 10, 5 | which cannot be described, God will reveal a truth that
440 10, 6 | any way to grow like our God and Spouse, we shall do
441 10, 6 | concerned -- glory be to God! -- I know that in these
442 10, 6 | truth, in the presence of God and man, in every way possible
443 10, 6 | do we must attribute to God what is His, and to ourselves
444 10, 7 | mind: that it is because God is Sovereign Truth and to
445 10, 7 | in truth. May it please God, sisters, to grant us grace
446 11 | of the desires to enjoy God which He gives the soul
447 11, 1 | about the greatness of her God, while finding herself so
448 11, 1 | her of how much this great God and Lord deserves to be
449 11, 1 | limitations can be set to God's acts, and that He can
450 11, 3 | this soul feels absent from God, and His Majesty now aids
451 11, 4 | about to render itself up to God. It really is quite as bad
452 11, 4 | only a little stronger, God would have fulfilled its
453 11, 5 | resign herself to the will of God, since she has surrendered
454 11, 6 | Ah, God help me! Lord, how Thou
455 11, 6 | it very gladly, and, if God so willed, would suffer
456 11, 7 | contentment and delight which God gives it. They cannot see
457 1 | Treats of great favours which God bestows on the souls that
458 1, 1 | just as the greatness of God is without limit, even so
459 1, 1 | remain to be related about God. Great is the mercy that
460 1, 1 | souls as creatures made in God's image deserve and so we
461 1, 1 | are to be said and which God reveals to every soul that
462 1, 2 | many blessings. O great God! Surely a creature as miserable
463 1, 2 | out upon me, so long as God is praised and understood
464 1, 4 | I mean. For the love of God, I beg you always to remember
465 1, 5 | speaking, but of those who, by God's mercy, have done penance
466 1, 5 | soul there is a mansion for God. Now, when His Majesty is
467 1, 5 | realization of its nearness to God. But when He unites it with
468 1, 6 | everything is different. Our good God now desires to remove the
469 1, 6 | and one Knowledge and one God alone; so that what we hold
470 1, 6(218) | this life, if so raised by God, may lose the use of his
471 1, 6(218) | knowledge of this mystery which God gives to certain souls,
472 1, 6(220) | either of the body (for God is Spirit) or of the imagination. ~
473 1, 7 | Oh, God help me! What a difference
474 1, 8 | belongs to the service of God she is more alert than before;
475 1, 8 | companionship. Unless her soul fails God, He will never fail, I believe,
476 1, 8 | has great confidence that God will not leave her, and
477 1, 9 | certain other occasions when God grants the soul this consolation;
478 1, 10 | great trials, shortly after God had granted her this favour,
479 2, 1 | withdraw ourselves from God this great blessing would
480 2, 3 | soul, which must be where God Himself dwells, and I do
481 2, 3 | instantaneous communication of God to the soul is so great
482 2, 3 | this soul) is made one with God, Who, being likewise a Spirit,
483 2, 4 | in that centre with its God. We might say that union
484 2, 5 | says: "He who is joined to God becomes one spirit with
485 2, 6 | is endowed with life by God. Very often these aspirations
486 2, 6 | breasts, where it seems that God is ever sustaining the soul,
487 2, 7 | ourselves of it for the love of God, that same Lord will fill
488 2, 7 | I am in them."234 ~Oh, God help me! How true are these
489 2, 8 | reaches the state in which God grants it this favour, it
490 2, 8 | smallest offence against God. It is also strongly desirous
491 2, 8 | real penance comes when God takes away its health and
492 2, 9 | one or two comparisons: God grant they may be of some
493 3, 2 | in seeking the honour of God. It appears that the words
494 3, 2 | the glory and honour of God, for which she would gladly
495 3, 4 | longing for the will of God to be done in her that whatever
496 3, 5 | love to commend them to God, and they would rejoice
497 3, 6 | they would have fruition of God, their attitude would not
498 3, 7 | the thought of enjoying God and desire to escape from
499 3, 9 | prayer but our realization of God's special care for us in
500 3, 9 | innermost Mansion, where God dwells in our souls, and