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  1 Intro,      0|            hostility gave place to an undiscriminating admiration.
  2 Intro,      0| individuals who molded society, to an extent that perhaps no succeeding
  3 Intro,      0|          modern times the formula, an abstraction such as "Capital"
  4 Intro,      0|      superior skill or strength of an individual rival. The lion
  5 Intro,      0|          be ultimately amenable to an idea, which so infinitely
  6 Intro,      0|          but must, one day, render an account of his stewardship.
  7 Intro,      0|                          For it is an insufficient criticism that
  8 Intro,      0|      solely, or even primarily, as an arbitrary fact: that the
  9 Intro,      0|                                    An apt illustration of this
 10 Intro,      0|         Vicar of Christ, fell into an ecstasy, during which she
 11 Intro,      0|    recurrent to the memory in such an environment: often indeed
 12 Intro,      0|      somewhat pinchbeck dignity of an Italian Prefettura. At least
 13 Intro,      0| interpreted by the deeper truth of an art whose insistent presence
 14 Intro,      0|     struggles towards his ideal of an Augustine or a Loyola, or
 15 Intro,      0|           the family, her fears of an accident. Nor were these
 16 Intro,      0|         other. Sent one morning on an errand to the house of her
 17 Intro,      0|            vision which, as it has an important symbolical bearing
 18 Intro,      0|            in which was seated, on an imperial throne, Jesus Christ,
 19 Intro,      0|           in leaving so remarkable an imprint of their personality
 20 Intro,      0|          her native city and heals an international feud between
 21 Intro,      0| Christendom was the possibility of an Italian anti-Pope who should
 22 Intro,      0|    contamination of her communion. An anti-Pope who should have
 23 Intro,      0|         too great a distance to be an effective Emperor of the
 24 Intro,      0|      inevitably came to acquire in an Italy deserted by the Empire,
 25 Intro,      0|                        It would be an unnecessary digression from
 26 Intro,      0|        essentially small means, in an aridity and narrowness of
 27 Intro,      0|      perfectly balanced character, an unquenchable love and a
 28 Intro,      0|           on popes and princes, is an almost unique specimen of
 29 Intro,      0|    devotional literature is surely an eighth spiritual work of
 30   1,      3  |           Infinite Good, calls for an infinite satisfaction? However,
 31   1,      3  |            is, are joined to Me by an affection of love, and therefore
 32   1,      3  |         for a guilt which deserved an infinite penalty, although
 33   1,      4  |          this knowledge of Me with an ineffable love, through
 34   1,      6  |       stands in hatred of Me, does an injury to his neighbor,
 35   1,      6  |           and thereby does himself an injury; for he cuts off
 36   1,      6  |     offered to Me for him. This is an assistance which is owed
 37   1,      6  |            content with not giving an example of virtue, the villain
 38   1,      6  |    neighbors, for he makes himself an instrument to destroy life
 39   1,      6  |       which you ought to give him; an open sin is where you perform
 40   1,      7  |        that virtues differ to such an extent in creatures. ~
 41   1,      7  |          no, he cannot help making an act of love. It is true,
 42   1,      8  |            proud man, his faith on an infidel, his true hope on
 43   2,      1  |            the body, that is, with an exterior act, or with diverse
 44   2,      1  |                                    An indiscreet soul robs Me
 45   2,      2  |            earth, and a tree, with an off-shoot joined to its
 46   2,      3  |            infinite works, that is an infinite perfection of love. ~
 47   2,      3  |          circumstances to complete an action which she has begun,
 48   2,      3  |        them as a means, and not as an end. For, if she takes them
 49   2,      3  |          For, if she takes them as an end she will be obliged,
 50   2,      3  |           otherwise he would be in an evil case, who, from some
 51   2,      3  |            is, should love Me with an infinite love and without
 52   2,      4  |          fire in that soul to such an extent that it was no longer
 53   2,      5  |         grace and virtue, nor does an evil minister do harm to
 54   2,      5  |          remaining behind, that is an inclination to sin, and
 55   2,     10  |            the Cross, making of it an anvil on which My Son, born
 56   2,     15  |            be between a finite and an infinite thing. But I have
 57   2,     17  |    separated herself from Me, like an adulteress, loving herself,
 58   2,     19  |            of His Body He had made an anvil. All the remedies
 59   2,     20  |         has not been shown them by an angel, so that they cannot
 60   2,     23  |           make with the body, with an intolerable reproof, which
 61   2,     25  |          it is full, but they have an exultation, a mirthfulness,
 62   2,     26  |        righteous, which is to them an increase of pain, as, to
 63   2,     26  |         damnation of the damned is an increase of exultation in
 64   2,     26  |            they see, following it, an increase of pain to themselves.
 65   2,     27  |     according as you please. It is an arm, which, if you place
 66   2,     27  |            extremity of death with an ordinary charity (not in
 67   2,     27  |         God, immovable, who am not an Acceptor of persons but
 68   2,     29  |           condition, that could be an impediment to the salvation
 69   2,     32  |                                    An exposition on Christ's words: "
 70   2,     33  |        with My love. You know that an empty thing, when touched,
 71   2,     38  |        Acceptor of creatures, I am an Acceptor of holy desires,
 72   2,     40  |       pleasure and profit. This is an imperfect state, and I,
 73   2,     41  |                                How an imperfect lover of GOD loves
 74   3,      9  |            I placed before him, as an object for the eyes of his
 75   3,     14  |        love, being disordinate and an offense to Me, receives
 76   3,     14  |         praise to My Name, and, in an ecstasy of desire, she joyfully
 77   3,     14  |         the soul in true patience; an odoriferous ointment are
 78   3,     16  |            Divine Goodness, grants an incomplete reward, imperfect
 79   3,     16  |         yet know himself. And, for an action which he may see,
 80   3,     18  |          which I have given you as an instrument and means for
 81   3,     20  |          their body, though not as an end in itself, but as a
 82   3,     20  |           My Name's sake; and when an injury is done to some one
 83   3,     22  |    salvation of souls, and that I, an unworthy and miserable slave,
 84   3,     24  |        their candles, one weighing an ounce, others two or six
 85   3,     24  |        that he whose candle weighs an ounce has less of the light
 86   3,     26  |          dearest daughter, in what an excellent state is the soul
 87   3,     27  |         that they do not give them an example of life, nor care
 88   3,     28  |         together with the color of an honorable and holy life,
 89   3,     28  |           they gave the example of an honorable and holy life,
 90   3,     29  |          and holy thoughts as does an angel. ~
 91   3,     30  |          with great solicitude; to an enemy, that is to say, to
 92   3,     30  |            little; but this is not an afflictive pain, but rather
 93   3,     30  |           he may attain to it, but an individual case does not
 94   3,     31  |            he would have to render an account to Me; now he finds
 95   4,      5  |         displeased him, he left as an heirloom to his sons his
 96   4,      5  |             Rightly he appeared as an apostle in the world, and
 97   4,      5  |         body of the Holy Church as an extirpator of heresies.
 98   4,      5  |          without any fear, to such an extent that he not only
 99   4,      7  |       ambition, because charity is an open book to be read by
100   4,      8  |         that of a religious but of an incarnate devil, as in another
101   4,      8  |             His life is lower than an animal's, and he does not
102   4,      9  |         raised from the earth, and an obedience were imposed on
103   4,     10  |         for the particular case of an individual; I have provided
104   4,     11  |          faith brings this work to an end. ~
105 Lette,      0|       tedious thirst, and so great an inflammation of her throat
106 Lette,      0|        Then, rising, she stood for an equal space of time, and
107 Lette,      0|         back to bed. Thence, after an hour or two, she would arise
108 Lette,      0|         crown of her head, to such an extent that she would often
109 Lette,      0|          this calamitous state for an hour and a half, half of
110 Lette,      0|          Urban, saying this as one an hungered for the Blood of