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1 Intr, 0 | by the practice of the "great virtues", which can be acquired
2 Intr, 0 | though she displays no great interest in chronological
3 Intr, 0 | number from 73 to 42, to the great advantage of the book's
4 Pref, 0 | ages than our own enjoyed great prestige and was considered
5 Pref, 0 | manuscripts are sometimes "so great that the [Stanbrook] translation
6 Prol | persons, have, out of their great love for me, so earnestly
7 Prol | them. I realize that the great love which they have for
8 Prol, 0 | souls of my sisters to make great progress in the service
9 Prol, 0 | importance but which may do great harm to persons as weak
10 Unic, 1 | entreated Him to remedy this great evil. I felt that I would
11 Unic, 1 | the same, confiding in the great goodness of God, Who never
12 Unic, 1 | would the evil were not so great and I did not see more being
13 Unic, 2 | know by experience what a great help it will be to you.
14 Unic, 2 | things in the world. It is a great domain -- I mean that he
15 Unic, 2 | A great deal has been written about
16 Unic, 2 | degree would bring us a great recompense.~
17 Unic, 2 | wrong, my daughters, that great houses should be built with
18 Unic, 2 | thirteen poor women made a great noise when it fell, for
19 Unic, 3 | His Majesty. Seeing how great are the evils of the present
20 Unic, 3 | to them, as though such a great and rapidly spreading evil
21 Unic, 3 | worldly people. This is a very great favour and one which is
22 Unic, 3 | fortified by realizing the great importance of spurning everything
23 Unic, 3 | little Divine favour in this great battle upon which they have
24 Unic, 3 | the contrary, they need a great deal.~
25 Unic, 3 | help them and show them great compassion.18 Thou didst
26 Unic, 4 | you have looked at the great enterprise which we are
27 Unic, 4 | labour hard and it will be a great help to us if we have sublime
28 Unic, 4 | fullest sense, and with great care, I hope in the Lord
29 Unic, 4 | they cannot possibly be great contemplatives, and, if
30 Unic, 4 | going to charge you to do a great many things; may it please
31 Unic, 4 | other -- this is of very great importance; for there is
32 Unic, 4 | to you extreme in this, great perfection and great peace
33 Unic, 4 | this, great perfection and great peace come of doing what
34 Unic, 4 | getting used to solitude is a great help to prayer. Since prayer
35 Unic, 4 | virtue, which is a very great one, since Our Lord has
36 Unic, 4 | you find this explained in great detail in other books, take
37 Unic, 4 | in this way, he will do a great deal of harm if he is not
38 Unic, 4 | Reflect upon the great importance of this, for
39 Unic, 4 | you not to wait until a great deal of harm has been done
40 Unic, 4 | attachment save to one who is a great servant of God; and I am
41 Unic, 4 | that the devil can do a great deal of harm here, which
42 Unic, 4 | some places there must be a great deal of trouble of this
43 Unic, 4 | be surprised if I attach great importance to your understanding
44 Unic, App | I see that he is taking great pains for the benefit of
45 Unic, App | affection sometimes helps us a great deal to undertake very great
46 Unic, App | great deal to undertake very great things in God's service.~
47 Unic, App | which confessors are good, great care and caution are necessary.
48 Unic, App | Reflect upon the great importance of this, etc. (
49 Unic, 5 | Give great praise to God, Daughters,
50 Unic, 5 | though there are not a great many priests whom you can
51 Unic, 5 | learning; for learning is a great help in giving light upon
52 Unic, 5 | theology; and he did me a great deal of mischief by telling
53 Unic, 5 | help they need: it is of great importance to them that
54 Unic, 5 | most noble extraction, is a great servant of God. He is always
55 Unic, 6 | I have digressed a great deal but no one will blame
56 Unic, 6 | exists, and that there is a great difference between the one
57 Unic, 6 | love Him, without feeling great confusion.~
58 Unic, 6 | certain good qualities and a great love for God. I really mean
59 Unic, 6 | it is impossible, however great their obligations and even
60 Unic, 7 | caused on another by some great trial, and there are people
61 Unic, 7 | so you would be doing a great deal of harm. Get to know
62 Unic, 7 | opposite of her fault with great perfection. Make determined
63 Unic, 7 | the rest! She will make a great advance in each of the virtues
64 Unic, 7 | virtues and keep her Rule with great perfection. This will be
65 Unic, 7 | also to rejoice and give great praise to the Lord if you
66 Unic, 7 | incurable a plague. Oh, what a great evil is this! God deliver
67 Unic, 8 | CHAPTER 8 - Treats of the great benefit of self-detachment,
68 Unic, 8 | When have I merited so great an honour? Thou seemest
69 Unic, 8 | God, try to realize what a great favour the Lord has bestowed
70 Unic, 8 | if their troubles are a great distress to her and if she
71 Unic, 9 | CHAPTER 9 - Treats of the great blessing that shunning their
72 Unic, 9 | should have to write at great length, in view of my lack
73 Unic, 9 | everything. Still, it is a great help, until we have learned
74 Unic, 10 | the same;33 unless we take great care and each of us looks
75 Unic, 10 | It will be a great help towards this if we
76 Unic, 10 | this. He has granted us the great favour of providing that,
77 Unic, 10(34) | and mortification, very great virtues."~
78 Unic, 10 | at least He has shown me great mercy in making me so; for,
79 Unic, 10 | saying it is a matter of great necessity, and, when there
80 Unic, 11 | to the end of them. I lay great stress on this, for I believe
81 Unic, 11 | how free you are from the great trials of the world! Learn
82 Unic, 11 | knowledge, she has to endure a great deal of misery and yet has
83 Unic, 11 | conquer such an enemy is a great achievement in the battle
84 Unic, 11 | victory, which I believe is a great one, will understand what
85 Unic, 12 | things which are also of very great importance, though they
86 Unic, 12 | trifling. All this seems a great task, and so it is, for
87 Unic, 12 | in its train, and what a great gain it is, even in this
88 Unic, 12 | houses they may give rise to great abuses. Remember, I know
89 Unic, 12 | abuses. Remember, I know a great deal about this. If you
90 Unic, 12 | worldly trappings will be a great impediment to it. Still,
91 Unic, 12 | attachments), they will never make great progress or come to enjoy
92 Unic, 13 | we are the brides of this great King or we are not. If we
93 Unic, 13 | small degree, imitate the great humility of the most sacred
94 Unic, 13 | example. If we realize what great harm is done by the formation
95 Unic, 13 | the loss of a soul is a great loss which is apparently
96 Unic, 13 | such a person by bestowing great spirituality upon her, until
97 Unic, 13 | will be evident from the great joy and gladness that such
98 Unic, 13 | I fear, make none over a great many years, and will even
99 Unic, 14 | CHAPTER 14 - Treats of the great importance of not professing
100 Unic, 14 | sure that the Lord bestows great help on anyone who makes
101 Unic, 14 | convent where there are a great many nuns it may be tolerated,
102 Unic, 14 | course may not bring her great spirituality but it will
103 Unic, 14 | community life, and she may do a great deal of harm. This defect,
104 Unic, 14 | intelligence and can do a great deal of good. There are
105 Unic, 14 | worldly conventions but have great skill in converse with God.
106 Unic, 14 | and our weakness is so great, that we are not content
107 Unic, 14 | courage fails her, of such great importance is it. So I beg
108 Unic, 15 | CHAPTER 15 - Treats of the great advantage which comes from
109 Unic, 15 | making excuses is a habit of great perfection, and very edifying
110 Unic, 15 | fitting. For, indeed, it takes great humility to find oneself
111 Unic, 15 | to do so, for it brings great gain; whereas I can see
112 Unic, 15 | These are great virtues, my sisters, and
113 Unic, 15 | cause for fear; for, however great the interior virtues may
114 Unic, 15 | they accustom one to gain great victories in very important
115 Unic, 15 | It is a great help to meditate upon the
116 Unic, 15 | help to meditate upon the great gain which in any case this
117 Unic, 15 | unjustly, that would be a very great thing. Such an experience
118 Unic, 15 | sensitive and not capable of great mortification. It is indeed
119 Unic, 16(46) | was only in 1561 that its great exponent Ruy L-pez de Segura
120 Unic, 16 | exist save where there is great detachment from all created
121 Unic, 16 | may be, should neglect so great a blessing if God inspires
122 Unic, 16 | people at once call him a great contemplative; and then
123 Unic, 16 | the rare virtues which a great contemplative is bound to
124 Unic, 16 | this can only be done with great labour, although the virtues
125 Unic, 16 | sometimes pleased to show great favour to persons who are
126 Unic, 16(47) | Lit.: "the great virtues." In V. St. Teresa
127 Unic, 16(47) | which I there described as great." Later she altered it to
128 Unic, 16 | Blessed be such great pity and mercy; we Christians
129 Unic, 16 | Christians ought to feel great shame at making Him wrestle
130 Unic, 17 | for me to say, which is of great importance because it has
131 Unic, 17 | tarries long, and gives us as great rewards all at once as He
132 Unic, 17 | hers -- a penitent and a great servant of God, who for
133 Unic, 17 | she says them. There are a great many other people just like
134 Unic, 17 | explained in my other book at great length.~
135 Unic, 17 | true humility consists to a great extent in being ready for
136 Unic, 17 | you would not have had so great a reward from contemplation.
137 Unic, 17 | restful life and all become great contemplatives. Oh, how
138 Unic, 18 | actives. This CHAPTER offers great consolation to actives.~
139 Unic, 18 | the less he is exposed to great danger, and, inwardly, must
140 Unic, 18 | the battle will be lost. Great harm, I think, is done to
141 Unic, 18 | one, and the King confers great honour and favour upon anyone
142 Unic, 18 | end. I am referring to the great virtues of humility, mortification
143 Unic, 18 | way in a year than in a great many years if she acts otherwise.
144 Unic, 18 | these perils? I have said a great deal about this, because
145 Unic, 19 | practise prayer and can be a great deal in their own company,
146 Unic, 19 | that he has to ride with great care. Some people are either
147 Unic, 19 | this living water in such great abundance that she would
148 Unic, 19 | our desire, let us take great care not to add to them
149 Unic, 19 | nature may be playing as great a part in producing these
150 Unic, 19 | people can have achieved great mortification, for mortification
151 Unic, 19 | illustration. A man has a great desire to be with God, as
152 Unic, 19 | which yet is in itself a great joy, and no small degree
153 Unic, 19 | saw her for a moment, the great stress and strain caused
154 Unic, 19 | consolations appropriate to such great trials: they will allay
155 Unic, 19 | pain and we shall gain a great deal by them if in order
156 Unic, 19 | person were suffering a great trial or a grievous affliction
157 Unic, 20 | by that." His mercy is so great that He has forbidden none
158 Unic, 20 | enough, for the sight of a great deal of water would frighten
159 Unic, 20 | never ends He will give you great abundance to drink and you
160 Unic, 20 | which may bring them such great blessings.75 For the love
161 Unic, 20(75) | Lit.: "of beginning so great a good."~
162 Unic, 20 | phrases are called, than by a great deal which you might say
163 Unic, 20 | has no desire to talk a great deal with a person who knows
164 Unic, 20 | quiet in the soul are of great importance on the road which
165 Unic, 20 | they will then realize what great gain it brings, and will
166 Unic, 21 | CHAPTER 21 - Describes the great importance of setting out
167 Unic, 21 | is enough! It is always a great thing to base your prayer
168 Unic, 21 | and, were it not for our great weakness and the lukewarmness
169 Unic, 21 | presume to do, and there are a great many explanations of them
170 Unic, 21 | our devotion, consulting a great many books will kill it.
171 Unic, 21 | purpose of gaining some great treasure, without running
172 Unic, 21 | into heresies and other great evils through yielding to
173 Unic, 21 | There is one great blessing -- you will always
174 Unic, 21 | obscured their path. (How great God is! To think that just
175 Unic, 21 | telling the truth than can a great many men all together!)
176 Unic, 22 | right for you to do, with so great a Lord, it is well that
177 Unic, 23 | should have to write at great length. Some of them are
178 Unic, 23 | the contrary, we gain a great deal.) I do not call this "
179 Unic, 23 | think it meanness and a great lack of affection if he
180 Unic, 23 | experience that they inflict great injury upon him, and, when
181 Unic, 23 | treacherous folk, who are great cowards and dare not attack
182 Unic, 23 | are careless, will work us great harm. And if they know anyone
183 Unic, 23 | that none of us realize its great importance.~
184 Unic, 23 | of it by faith. It is a great thing to have experienced
185 Unic, 24 | matter of fact, there are a great many people who seem terrified
186 Unic, 24 | are not right; there is a great deal of difference between
187 Unic, 24 | impossible for us not to have great love for them, and indeed
188 Unic, 24 | days on end to go through great storms. And, although they
189 Unic, 25 | CHAPTER 25 - Describes the great gain which comes to a soul
190 Unic, 25 | at any rate not without great difficulty.~
191 Unic, 25 | are daring to address so great a Lord. To think of this
192 Unic, 25 | have served Him and how great is our obligation to serve
193 Unic, 25 | These should bring you great comfort and profit -- in
194 Unic, 25 | what confusion I write a great deal that I do. Blessed
195 Unic, 26 | looking upon you. Is it such a great matter, then, for you to
196 Unic, 26 | in which He had gained a great kingdom, all of which He
197 Unic, 26 | it Himself. Is it such a great thing that you should turn
198 Unic, 26 | Him Who has made you such great gifts?~
199 Unic, 26 | all torn to pieces by His great love for you. How much He
200 Unic, 26 | to me and count them as a great blessing. Let us go both
201 Unic, 26 | prepared to endure such great trials then, if you are
202 Unic, 26 | It is also a great help to have a good book,
203 Unic, 26 | mentioned, you will derive such great profit from them that I
204 Unic, 27 | CHAPTER 27 - Describes the great love shown us by the Lord
205 Unic, 27 | the Paternoster and the great importance of our making
206 Unic, 27 | ever and ever. Ought not so great a favour as this, Lord,
207 Unic, 27 | our hands and grant us so great a favour that it would be
208 Unic, 27 | that it would be a very great blessing if our understanding
209 Unic, 27 | after we have realized how great this favour is, we should
210 Unic, 27 | must bear with us, however great our offences. If we return
211 Unic, 27 | the Son of God, but Thy great desire for our welfare overcomes
212 Unic, 27 | begins by granting us this great favour so as to make us
213 Unic, 27 | had one as good, and of as great majesty and dominion, as
214 Unic, 27 | fervent love, since even the great advantage you gain will
215 Unic, 28 | minds which wander it is of great importance not only to have
216 Unic, 28 | everywhere; and this is a great truth, for, of course, wherever
217 Unic, 28 | come out again, but it is a great thing that they should ever
218 Unic, 28 | said should be noted with great care, for, though it seems
219 Unic, 28 | palace, in short, fit for so great a Lord. Imagine that it
220 Unic, 28 | within the palace dwells this great King, Who has vouchsafed
221 Unic, 28 | There should surely be a great difference between the brute
222 Unic, 28 | then, as I do now, how this great King really dwells within
223 Unic, 28 | the whole of this palace great. The important point is
224 Unic, 28 | crowd is there it would be a great thing if He were to remain
225 Unic, 29 | small way but may cost you a great deal of unrest. Check them
226 Unic, 29 | Believe me, friends, it is a great thing to realize the truth
227 Unic, 29 | holy companionship with our great Companion, the Holiest of
228 Unic, 29 | as a moment, that is of great utility. But as I am speaking
229 Unic, 29 | The great thing I should like to teach
230 Unic, 29 | other prayers we like with great peace of mind, and the Lord
231 Unic, 29 | to tire our brains by a great deal of talking.~
232 Unic, 29 | before long you will have the great comfort of finding it unnecessary
233 Unic, 29 | have always gained such great benefits from this custom
234 Unic, 29 | that is for acquiring so great a benefit, for you will
235 Unic, 29 | raise you up to achieve great things, He will find you
236 Unic, 30 | Consider now, daughters, how great is our Master's wisdom.
237 Unic, 30 | a perpetual peace, and a great interior satisfaction which
238 Unic, 30 | pledges which will give them a great hope of eventually attaining
239 Unic, 30 | reason, daughters, I attach great importance to your saying
240 Unic, 30 | She came to me once in great distress, saying that she
241 Unic, 30 | clear she was receiving great favours. So I praised the
242 Unic, 31 | it and it will give you great comfort to know what it
243 Unic, 31 | It is a great favour which the Lord grants
244 Unic, 31 | understand it and asked a great contemplative109 about it,
245 Unic, 31 | Pay great attention to the following
246 Unic, 31 | in which we ask for so great a good without knowing what
247 Unic, 31 | themselves and not to make so great a petition as though they
248 Unic, 31 | it is a sign that He has great things in store for it.
249 Unic, 31 | fault if it does not make great progress. But if He sees
250 Unic, 31 | They do not respond to so great a favour in a practical
251 Unic, 31 | number of vocal prayers in a great hurry, as though they were
252 Unic, 31 | this favour. Think what a great treasure you may be losing
253 Unic, 32 | and has granted us the great favour of making us His
254 Unic, 32 | service in return for such great favours. O good Jesus! Since
255 Unic, 32 | could be possible. It is a great thing that Thou dost offer.~
256 Unic, 32 | O my Lord, what a great comfort it is to me that
257 Unic, 32 | hands. O friends, what a great gain is this -- and how
258 Unic, 32 | you riches or pleasures or great honours or any such earthly
259 Unic, 32 | to bear crosses, whether great or small. So if you have
260 Unic, 32 | the prayers you make to so great a Lord be words of mere
261 Unic, 32 | Worldly people will do a great deal if they sincerely resolve
262 Unic, 32 | to prepare us to receive great favours from Him, for His
263 Unic, 32 | and that God is infinitely great.~
264 Unic, 33 | CHAPTER 33 - Treats of our great need that the Lord should
265 Unic, 33 | this. God help me! What a great love is that of the Son
266 Unic, 33 | that of the Son and what a great love is that of the Father!
267 Unic, 33 | Himself to us with such great love.~
268 Unic, 33 | O Eternal Father, how great is the merit of this humility!
269 Unic, 34 | it suffice to temper your great joy that He should remain
270 Unic, 34 | illnesses and often suffered great pain; and this pain was
271 Unic, 34 | all become aware of this great blessing, or rather, so
272 Unic, 34 | and falsehood. And if such great Majesty could be seen, how
273 Unic, 34 | Jesus, you are doing Him a great service. Be very careful,
274 Unic, 34 | excellent thing, and take great pleasure in it? When the
275 Unic, 34 | to feel his loss by our great aridity, it is then that
276 Unic, 34 | is then that we find it a great comfort to look at the picture
277 Unic, 34 | reason to love. This is a great inspiration, and makes us
278 Unic, 34 | you have of seeing Him. So great, indeed, may be your longing
279 Unic, 34 | He grants us an exceeding great favour when He is pleased
280 Unic, 35 | Recollection, I spoke of the great importance of our entering
281 Unic, 35 | your heart, knowing what great harm he can do in this way),
282 Unic, 35 | who insult Him and with great irreverence drive Him away
283 Unic, 35 | us in granting sinners so great a favour, He may be pleased
284 Unic, 35 | able to beg of Thee this great favour as a reward for my
285 Unic, 35 | Thy Church, to endure so great a tempest. Save us, my Lord,
286 Unic, 36 | that anyone who asks for so great a gift as that just mentioned,
287 Unic, 36 | Thou mayest grant us so great a favour. Do it, then, for
288 Unic, 36 | because we are doing a great deal of penance, or because
289 Unic, 36 | having asked for so many great gifts for us, He offers
290 Unic, 36 | and it prefers trials to a great deal of rest and ease. For
291 Unic, 36 | discovered by experience what great benefits the soul gains
292 Unic, 36 | His Majesty grant it such great consolations, and then only
293 Unic, 36 | out for Himself souls of great experience.~
294 Unic, 36 | things which pass away. A great wrong, or a great trial,
295 Unic, 36 | away. A great wrong, or a great trial, may cause them some
296 Unic, 36 | possessing such humility and great love for Him forget themselves
297 Unic, 36 | recognized the signs of great love, and it is glad that
298 Unic, 37 | for which we should give great praise to the Lord. So well
299 Unic, 37 | build upon, I could write a great book on prayer if only I
300 Unic, 37 | favours which, through the great goodness of God, may be
301 Unic, 38 | CHAPTER 38 - Treats of the great need which we have to beseech
302 Unic, 38 | There are great things here for us to meditate
303 Unic, 38 | always be victorious and gain great riches, so they will never
304 Unic, 38 | until they have done it a great deal of harm; they suck
305 Unic, 38 | Where the devil can do great harm without our realizing
306 Unic, 38 | little by little, does us a great deal of harm. On the one
307 Unic, 38 | the pit has been dug, a great many passers-by may fall
308 Unic, 38 | full of peril. I know a great deal about it from experience,
309 Unic, 38 | again, as indeed, in the great providence of God, often
310 Unic, 38 | at every step. This is a great favour on His part, for
311 Unic, 38 | resolutions to suffer a great deal for God's sake. We
312 Unic, 38 | would consider it of no great moment, for the matter is
313 Unic, 39 | Pay great attention, daughters, to
314 Unic, 39 | and at other times a very great temptation. I have had experience
315 Unic, 39 | you the more: it will be a great thing if you can recognize
316 Unic, 39 | may do him harm and be of great help to others, does all
317 Unic, 39 | contemplation may be, take great care both to begin and to
318 Unic, 40 | have these two very, very great virtues.138 You are right
319 Unic, 40(138)| these two virtues, so great, so great."~
320 Unic, 40(138)| two virtues, so great, so great."~
321 Unic, 40 | much, it shows itself a great deal. But it always shows
322 Unic, 40 | love; for had they not a great deal they would not be contemplatives,
323 Unic, 40 | and in many ways. Being a great fire, it cannot fail to
324 Unic, 40 | and realize that they have great cause for fear; and they
325 Unic, 40 | keep it from enjoying these great blessings, the devil will
326 Unic, 40 | they believed that such great favours, bestowed upon so
327 Unic, 40 | truly devout and received great favours from the Lord.~
328 Unic, 40 | is manifest in Our Lord's great sorrows, His trials, the
329 Unic, 40 | this life, for it will be a great thing at the hour of death,
330 Unic, 41 | said, the Lord grants such great favours as to make them
331 Unic, 41 | in a very short time, to great heights of prayer. It is
332 Unic, 41 | Oh, what a great thing it is not to have
333 Unic, 41 | we are sinning against so great a Sovereign and realizing
334 Unic, 41 | not small but very, very great.~
335 Unic, 41 | always to exercise very great care and to avoid all occasions
336 Unic, 41 | begins to quail, it will do great harm to what is good in
337 Unic, 41 | state of mind, leading to great uneasiness and to continual
338 Unic, 41 | mind that God does not pay great attention to all the trifling
339 Unic, 41 | completely safe or we shall be in great danger. And that was our
340 Unic, 42 | full of charity this is a great torment, what must it have
341 Unic, 42 | which we are deprived of our great Good and are absent from
342 Unic, 42 | not living as I should, so great are my obligations.~
343 Unic, 42 | will is for us to desire great and sublime things, whereas
344 Unic, 42 | It would be insulting a great emperor to ask him for a
345 Unic, 42 | discouraged, but read this with great care and beg God to explain
346 Unic, 42 | mind that there were such great secrets in it. You have
347 Unic, 42 | has been to teach us what great consolation is comprised
348 Unic, 42 | comprised in it, and this is a great advantage to those who cannot
349 Unic, 42 | prayer, they could derive a great deal of sound instruction
350 Unic, 42 | fount, and will give them a great deal of light.~
351 Unic, 42 | prayer, which has been a great comfort to me. Blessed and