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 1   1,      4|  derived from Me, since I have loved both you and others before
 2   2,     10|         seeing herself so much loved. Having passed the second
 3   2,     25|        those whom they closely loved with particular affection
 4   2,     26|     worldly substance which he loved disordinately, and the burning
 5   2,     28|     children, or of other much loved creatures (all of which
 6   2,     37|       Me, and virtue should be loved for My sake. It is true
 7   2,     37|   imperfect love that S. Peter loved the sweet and good Jesus,
 8   2,     37|      the lover into the object loved, and where two friends have
 9   2,     41|       you cannot do, because I loved you without being loved.
10   2,     41|        loved you without being loved. All the love which you
11   2,     41|        consolation, or another loved more than he. In these and
12   3,      5|      might see how much more I loved than I could show you by
13   3,      5|      the Heart, showing that I loved more than I could show,
14   3,      8|       back, that is, had I not loved your being, you could not
15   3,     14|        herself to be ineffably loved by Me, she loves every rational
16   3,     14|   which she sees herself to be loved. And, for this reason, the
17   3,     14|      which she sees Me to have loved still more. She further
18   3,     14|        she feels herself to be loved by Me, and therefore endeavors
19   3,     14|    pure love with which I have loved you. That pure love cannot
20   3,     14| directly to Me, because I have loved you without being Myself
21   3,     14|       you without being Myself loved, and without any consideration
22   3,     14|       Myself whatsoever, for I loved you without being loved
23   3,     14|        loved you without being loved by you -- before you existed;
24   3,     14|    your neighbor without being loved by him and without consideration
25   3,     14|      Name, because he has been loved by Me. ~
26   3,     16|        of something which they loved. ~
27   3,     22|       do it? Love, because You loved me, without my having loved
28   3,     22|    loved me, without my having loved You. Oh, Fire of Love! Thanks,
29   3,     28|     not save you without it. I loved you before you were, and
30   3,     28|       this, and therefore they loved Me ineffably, and through
31   3,     29|       worthy they are of being loved; when they also possess
32   3,     32|        this? Love. Because You loved us before we were. Oh! Good!
33   4,      1|        that man whom I so much loved, did not return to Me, his
34   4,     11|       and do not deny that You loved me before I existed, and
35   4,     11|        Your truth and have not loved it. Why did I not know You?