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501 3, 1 | arrive thereat, she waits, with a lively faith for My arrival, 502 3, 1 | soul, tempting her often with these words: 'This prayer 503 3, 1 | prayer, which is a weapon with which the soul can defend 504 3, 1 | every adversary, if grasped with the hand of love, by the 505 3, 2 | prayer, the soul acquires, with time and perseverance, every 506 3, 2 | to chatter nonsensically, with the purpose of preventing 507 3, 2 | Son, who showed it to you with His blood! Which Blood inebriates 508 3, 2 | the soul and clothes her with the fire of divine charity, 509 3, 2 | he actually communicates with the Blessed Sacrament. He 510 3, 2 | it were, sacramentally, with the affection of love, which 511 3, 2 | becomes inebriated, and blazes with holy desire and satisfies 512 3, 2 | house of self-knowledge with holy prayer, where imperfections 513 3, 2 | By perseverance seasoned with the most holy faith. ~ 514 3, 2 | afterwards perfect, so also is it with her prayer. She should nevertheless 515 3, 2 | elevate her mind in My love, with the consideration of her 516 3, 2 | and continue her exercises with true humility. I do not 517 3, 2 | confusion. And together with confusion would come the 518 3, 2 | one of the subtle devices with which the Devil deludes 519 3, 2 | affections in My boundless mercy, with true humility. You know 520 3, 2 | iniquities be consumed, and with desire will I rejoice in 521 3, 2 | endeavored to inflate you with pride, saying: 'You are 522 3, 2 | and you answered the Devil with these words: 'Wretch that 523 3, 2 | hardly begun to know them with grief and true contrition, 524 3, 2 | more, because you strike me with the stick of charity.' The 525 3, 2 | the knowledge of herself with the knowledge of My goodness, 526 3, 2 | imperfect prayer, exercised with perseverance, at perfect 527 3, 2 | And so, with exercise in perseverance, 528 3, 2 | some communicated virtually with the Body and Blood of Christ, 529 3, 2 | according to the affection with which they pray. They who 530 3, 2 | they pray. They who proceed with little prudence and without 531 3, 2 | little, and they who proceed with much, taste much. For the 532 3, 2 | herself, and fasten it in Me with the light of the intellect, 533 3, 2 | soul raising herself to Me, with knowledge of herself and 534 3, 2 | mercy, seasoned the one with the other. Thus she will 535 3, 2 | holy will disposes itself with desire to the occasion actually 536 3, 2 | actual prayer may be united with mental prayer if made with 537 3, 2 | with mental prayer if made with the affection of charity, 538 3, 2 | oneself or in one's neighbor, with good-will, is prayer. The 539 3, 2 | therefore spur herself on with prayer, and when she has 540 3, 3 | requires to be seasoned with knowledge of Me, lest it 541 3, 3 | she will draw patience, with which she will become strong 542 3, 3 | should rise against it, and, with hatred of it, hold out reason 543 3, 3 | House of Self-Knowledge, with the light of faith, as did 544 3, 4 | Me, on My return to her, with the fire of charity, in 545 3, 4 | still remaining in the house with perseverance, she conceives 546 3, 4 | participating in My power; with which power and virtues 547 3, 4 | which she sees and knows, with the eye of her intellect, 548 3, 4 | love. She therefore arises, with hatred of that imperfection 549 3, 4 | of that imperfection and with love of perfection, and, 550 3, 4 | is one of perfect union with Me. The two last-mentioned 551 3, 5 | But they, as if drunken with love and burning with it, 552 3, 5 | drunken with love and burning with it, have gathered together 553 3, 5 | first climbing to the Feet, with the feet of the soul's affection, 554 3, 5 | being kneaded and united with the Blood of the Lamb, receiving 555 3, 5 | Baptism, but desiring it with the affection of love. There 556 3, 5 | is steeped in and kneaded with the fire of Divine charity, 557 3, 5 | receiving the Baptism of Blood, with contrition of heart, confessing, 558 3, 5 | infinite Divine nature, united with the finite human nature, 559 3, 5 | in Me, the Word, clothed with your humanity. But because 560 3, 5 | is steeped in and united with the other, the Eternal Deity 561 3, 5 | the pain, which I suffered with so much fire and love. And 562 3, 5 | more than I could show, with finite pain. I showed to 563 3, 5 | Baptism of Blood, united with the fire of My charity, 564 3, 5 | baptism of water, united with the Blood and the fire, 565 3, 7 | diverse ways, exercising them with many temptations and vexations, 566 3, 8 | prays to Me continually with affection of love, that 567 3, 8 | because I am one thing with My Truth, and He, the Word 568 3, 8 | and He, the Word Incarnate with Me. You see then, that the 569 3, 8 | Thus, as if drunk with the Blood of the Immaculate 570 3, 9 | crucified, clothing him with the garment of His doctrine, 571 3, 9 | binding and fettering him with the clemency of the Holy 572 3, 9 | Spirit and inflaming him with the fire of charity. He 573 3, 9 | crucified, clothing him with the doctrine of My charity. 574 3, 9 | illuminated him perfectly with the light of true contrition, 575 3, 10 | union which she had made with Me, is impatient in her 576 3, 10 | being deprived of union with Me, and the conversation 577 3, 10 | always have, and which, with the desire to see Me, renders 578 3, 10 | their own, but becomes one with Mine, they cannot desire 579 3, 10 | they desire to come and be with Me, they are contented to 580 3, 10 | I desire them to remain, with their pain, for the greater 581 3, 10 | nothing are they in discord with My Will; but they run their 582 3, 10 | but they run their course with ecstatic desire, clothed 583 3, 10 | body. These not only endure with patience, as I told you 584 3, 10 | seeing themselves clothed with the suffering and shame 585 3, 10 | rather delight in the Cross, with Christ, acquiring it with 586 3, 10 | with Christ, acquiring it with pain, than in any other 587 3, 10 | is nourished and united with Me. This is a sight which 588 3, 10 | grant to the soul, infused with grace, who, in truth, loves 589 3, 11 | With this light that is given 590 3, 11 | to be dark, now appears with the most perfect light, 591 3, 11 | of My only-begotten Son, with the law of Love, completing 592 3, 11 | Law is now imperfect, but with My Blood I will make it 593 3, 11 | perfect, and I will fill it up with what it lacks, taking away 594 3, 11 | Scripture rather literally than with understanding, and taste 595 3, 11 | themselves of the light, with which is found and expounded 596 3, 11 | The contrary will you find with My servants, because they 597 3, 11 | the light that is in them, with hunger and desire for the 598 3, 11 | the supernatural light. With this light the souls in 599 3, 11 | one feeds the other, and, with this light, they both arrive 600 3, 11 | mortal body, tastes bliss with the immortals, and oftentimes 601 3, 11 | both because she is united with Me, and because her will 602 3, 11 | death her union was made with Me, and in no other way 603 3, 12 | Then this soul, yearning with very great desire, and rising 604 3, 12 | union which she had had with God, and by what she had 605 3, 12 | and Sweet Truth, yearned with grief over the ignorance 606 3, 12 | passes through these states with tears, she wished to learn 607 3, 12 | necessary for him who is lifted with desire to learn the Truth 608 3, 12 | desire to learn the Truth with the light of faith. ~ 609 3, 12 | every limit of her nature with the greatness of her desire. 610 3, 12 | greatness of her desire. And, with the light of a lively faith, 611 3, 13 | tears of sweetness let fall with great peace, as I will explain 612 3, 14 | done to Me, abandons it with a hearty grief for the penalty 613 3, 14 | soul. And so she proceeds, with love, to know herself and 614 3, 14 | Sorrow for her grief, mingled with the joy of her hope in My 615 3, 14 | but it is a spiritual love with which the soul desires spiritual 616 3, 14 | heart, she begins to weep with a tender and compassionate 617 3, 14 | sorrow, pitying herself with the spiritual compassion 618 3, 14 | knowledge of My goodness with a fire of love, and she 619 3, 14 | satisfy the heart, cries with hearty love for Me and for 620 3, 14 | My sweet Truth, enduring with true and sweet patience 621 3, 14 | as I said, enduring them with patience, but sustaining 622 3, 14 | patience, but sustaining them with joy, she counts it glory 623 3, 14 | she feels herself to have with Me, tasting the divine love; 624 3, 14 | self-knowledge, together with her knowledge of Me, she 625 3, 14 | to her neighbor, weeping with those who weep, and rejoicing 626 3, 14 | who weep, and rejoicing with those who rejoice -- that 627 3, 14 | the soul finds such union with Me), developed from the 628 3, 14 | it is necessary to bear with others and practice continually 629 3, 14 | one's neighbor, together with true knowledge of oneself. ~ 630 3, 14 | every rational creature with the self-same love with 631 3, 14 | with the self-same love with which she sees herself to 632 3, 14 | repay Me that pure love with which she feels herself 633 3, 14 | should therefore love them with the same pure love with 634 3, 14 | with the same pure love with which I have loved you. 635 3, 14 | union which she has attained with Me. ~ 636 3, 14 | because He was one thing with Me, and I with Him, wherefore 637 3, 14 | one thing with Me, and I with Him, wherefore His soul 638 3, 14 | was blessed through union with the Divine nature. But do 639 3, 15 | canals which are filled with abundant tears of infinite 640 3, 15 | in love, exercised, and with this desire the eye weeps. 641 3, 15 | any life if you served Me with anything finite. For I, 642 3, 15 | wish to be served by you with infinite service, and the 643 3, 16 | fruit produced by tears shed with desire, and received into 644 3, 16 | Me. I acted in this way with My glorious apostle Paul, 645 3, 16 | of two kinds. The first with regard to Me, by which men 646 3, 16 | the eye of their intellect with sensual self-love, and hidden 647 3, 16 | not clean, but all spotted with duplicity and misery. How 648 3, 17 | Then this soul, eager with the greatness of her desire, 649 3, 17 | the time of our warfare with You, in the person of Your 650 3, 17 | whether this joy can consist with the delusion of the passion 651 3, 18 | her heart, and the desire with which she longed to serve 652 3, 18 | does not see into My Truth with the eye of her intellect, 653 3, 18 | through the law of perversity with which your members are bound, 654 3, 18 | does she prove it? When, with anger and displeasure, she 655 3, 18 | the eye of the intellect, with light of the holy faith, 656 3, 19 | that is to say, they act with true knowledge of themselves 657 3, 19 | of themselves and of Me, with great humility, and wholly 658 3, 19 | they were not thus clothed with My Will, in true humility, 659 3, 19 | say, cheating themselves with the delusion of their own 660 3, 19 | love, and that therefore, with love and reverence, should 661 3, 20 | permit to happen to them with due reverence, as I have 662 3, 20 | My Will, clothes herself with it, and fixes her attention 663 3, 20 | salvation. And, inflamed with this desire, He ran, with 664 3, 20 | with this desire, He ran, with great eagerness, to the 665 3, 20 | Door of Me, Eternal Life, with the key of His precious 666 3, 20 | His precious Blood, shed with such fire of love, with 667 3, 20 | with such fire of love, with such hatred of your sins. 668 3, 20 | road, and opened the door with My Blood.' Do not you then 669 3, 20 | Incarnate Word, and built up with His Blood. Rise up then, 670 3, 20 | one enamored and inflamed with love, to the table of holy 671 3, 20 | loving Me in perfect purity, with no other regard than for 672 3, 20 | having clothed themselves with the New Man, the sweet Christ 673 3, 20 | And all the persecutions, with which the world and the 674 3, 20 | compassion, interceding with Me for sinners and saying, 675 3, 20 | for sinners and saying, with perfect humility: 'To-day 676 3, 20 | table of holy desire, and, with the light, have arrived 677 3, 20 | Eternal Father, being clothed with burning love in the sweet 678 3, 20 | one else, they endure it with compassion of this injured 679 3, 20 | and were praying to Me with a great desire of doing 680 3, 20 | to say, offer them to Me, with holy compassion. In the 681 3, 20 | but, as has been said, with holy compassion. In this 682 3, 20 | have received from Me; and with the eye of your intellect 683 3, 20 | the affection of My love, with which I love you inestimably; 684 3, 20 | discern by judgment, but with holy compassion." ~ 685 3, 21 | to say, nourishes herself with love of her neighbor, which 686 3, 21 | blessed through its union with the divine nature. In like 687 3, 22 | love which she had made with her Creator, and as if, 688 3, 22 | gazed into the eternal truth with the eye of her intellect, 689 3, 22 | I, as one blind and sick with this infirmity, passed judgment 690 3, 22 | You have made one thing with me, and whom I love with 691 3, 22 | with me, and whom I love with a particular love, because 692 3, 22 | daughter, may behave to them with due reverence and holy fear, 693 3, 22 | Church, and comfort her with good and holy pastors. I 694 3, 23 | given you, whom you love with particular love, and be 695 3, 24 | known by means of contrast with its contrary, I will show 696 3, 24 | which I made of My Deity with human nature; so that in 697 3, 24 | union of My Divine Nature with your human nature. This 698 3, 24 | because He is one thing with Me, the True Sun, in such 699 3, 24 | So this Word, My Son, with His most sweet Blood, is 700 3, 24 | because He is one thing with Me and I with Him. My power 701 3, 24 | one thing with Me and I with Him. My power is not separated 702 3, 24 | Son; for He is one thing with us, the Holy Spirit proceeding 703 3, 24 | administer this light to others, with gratitude for the benefits 704 3, 24 | perfect through its union with the Divine nature, and, 705 3, 24 | the Incarnate Word mixed with the Light of My Divine nature 706 3, 24 | Light. Whom have I entrusted with its administration? ~ 707 3, 24 | that is the holy desire, with which he receives this Sacrament, 708 3, 24 | given you the material, with which you can receive this 709 3, 24 | you would be like a candle with no wick inside it, which 710 3, 24 | grace, in baptism, united with the disposition of your 711 3, 24 | as has been said, coming with love to receive this Sweet 712 3, 24 | the love and fiery desire with which you approach It. ~ 713 3, 24 | according to the holy desire with which you dispose yourselves 714 3, 24 | altar to receive this Light with her body, and not with her 715 3, 24 | Light with her body, and not with her mind, wherefore the 716 3, 24 | way can this Light, united with its heat and its color, 717 3, 24 | receive Him. He remains wholly with Me, and yet you have Him, 718 3, 25 | the soul; therefore it is, with the latter, that one must 719 3, 25 | And with what eye, dearest daughter, 720 3, 25 | should you touch it? Not only with the bodily sight and touch, 721 3, 25 | tasted, seen, and touched? With the sentiment of the soul. 722 3, 25 | the sentiment of the soul. With what eye is It to be seen? 723 3, 25 | what eye is It to be seen? With the eye of the intellect 724 3, 25 | the Divine nature united with the human nature, the Body, 725 3, 25 | Body and the Soul united with My Divine nature, not detached 726 3, 25 | be deceived; wherefore, with it you should look on this 727 3, 25 | It? By the hand of love. With this hand alone can you 728 3, 25 | Sacrament. The soul touches Me with the hand of love, as if 729 3, 25 | faith. How do you taste It? With the palate of holy desire. 730 3, 25 | perceptions, for she touches with the hand of love that which 731 3, 25 | of her intellect has seen with the pupil of holy faith; 732 3, 25 | pupil of holy faith; and with her palate -- that is, with 733 3, 25 | with her palate -- that is, with fiery desire -- she tastes 734 3, 25 | Charity, My Ineffable Love, with which I have made her worthy 735 3, 25 | this Sacrament, not only with bodily perceptions, but 736 3, 25 | perceptions, but rather with your spiritual perceptions, 737 3, 26 | My Truth, and, together with this wisdom, you participate 738 3, 27 | of My only-begotten Son, with the fire of charity, and 739 3, 28 | grace of the Holy Spirit. With what have they administered 740 3, 28 | have they administered it? With the light of grace, which 741 3, 28 | drawn from this True Light. With light alone? No; because 742 3, 28 | which his memory is filled with the benefit of the Blood. 743 3, 28 | the intellect lifts itself with the pupil of faith above 744 3, 28 | and the memory is filled with that which the affection 745 3, 28 | Sun who illuminates her with My power, and with the wisdom 746 3, 28 | illuminates her with My power, and with the wisdom of My only-begotten 747 3, 28 | the power of their soul with Me, the true Sun, they become 748 3, 28 | their souls to germinate with Its heat. Thus do My sweet 749 3, 28 | only-begotten Son, together with the other Sacraments, which 750 3, 28 | supernatural science, together with the color of an honorable 751 3, 28 | administer in the ardent love with which they cause barren 752 3, 28 | fruit, illuminating them with the light of their science, 753 3, 28 | love, they are one thing with Me, and I with them, as 754 3, 28 | one thing with Me, and I with them, as I narrated to you 755 3, 28 | have elected him: Peter with preaching and doctrine, 756 3, 28 | doctrine, and in the end with blood; Gregory with science, 757 3, 28 | end with blood; Gregory with science, and holy scripture, 758 3, 28 | and holy scripture, and with the mirror of his life; 759 3, 28 | against the infidels, and with disputation and proving 760 3, 28 | placed upon the candelabra, with true and perfect humility. 761 3, 28 | Cross. The martyrs, indeed, with blood, which blood cast 762 3, 28 | before My countenance; and, with the perfume of blood, and 763 3, 28 | and of the virtues, and with the light of science, they 764 3, 28 | the sacrifice of justice with holy and upright lives. 765 3, 28 | lives. The pearl of justice, with true humility, and most 766 3, 28 | and in their subjects, with the light of discretion. 767 3, 28 | vice and embracing virtue, with love of Me and of their 768 3, 28 | Me and of their neighbor. With humility they trampled on 769 3, 28 | trampled on pride, and, with purity of heart and of body, 770 3, 28 | table of the altar, and, with sincerity of mind, celebrated, 771 3, 28 | charitably corrected them with the unction of benignity, 772 3, 28 | unction of benignity, and with the sharpness of fire, cauterizing 773 3, 28 | cauterizing the wound of sin with reproof and penance, little 774 3, 28 | were true gardeners who, with care and holy tears, took 775 3, 28 | and caused holy fear to be with them, and unity of hearts. 776 3, 28 | the other members, who, with him, form one body under 777 3, 28 | corrupt not the other members with the putrefaction of mortal 778 3, 28 | preserve their position with injustice, they do not reprove 779 3, 28 | themselves to be bound over with flattering words and with 780 3, 28 | with flattering words and with many presents, and they 781 3, 28 | and sought out vileness with profound humility, and cared 782 3, 28 | and they blessed, and, with true patience, they bore 783 3, 28 | sweet and amorous desires with continual prayer, and the 784 3, 28 | the doctrine of words, and with example of life. So you 785 3, 28 | giving you good inspirations, with prayers and example of life, 786 3, 28 | and doctrine as I said. With how much humility did they 787 3, 28 | under them, and converse with them! With how much hope 788 3, 28 | and converse with them! With how much hope and lively 789 3, 28 | lively faith, and therefore with liberality, did they distribute 790 3, 28 | is that he does not fear with a servile fear. They who 791 3, 28 | earth fade away before them. With such fears as these, and 792 3, 28 | soul and the body, and that with the same measure that My 793 3, 28 | which I have given you, with the light of reason, because 794 3, 28 | Emperor Constantine disputing with those twelve Jews before 795 3, 28 | before the whole crowd, but with lively faith he believed 796 3, 28 | of whosoever desires it, with the light of faith, with 797 3, 28 | with the light of faith, with hope, with fortitude, true 798 3, 28 | light of faith, with hope, with fortitude, true patience 799 3, 28 | the light which they shed with the odor of virtues in the 800 3, 28 | honorable and holy life, and with light administered the Light 801 3, 28 | from Me, and exercised it with care and profound humility 802 3, 28 | care and profound humility with true and real virtues; and 803 3, 28 | They made themselves infirm with those who were infirm, so 804 3, 28 | they might not be overcome with despair, and to give them 805 3, 28 | say, 'I, too, am infirm with you.' They wept with those 806 3, 28 | infirm with you.' They wept with those who wept, and rejoiced 807 3, 28 | those who wept, and rejoiced with those who rejoiced; and 808 3, 28 | gnawed by envy, but expanded with the broadness of love for 809 3, 28 | becoming imperfect and infirm with them, as I told you, with 810 3, 28 | with them, as I told you, with true and holy compassion, 811 3, 28 | their penance -- together with them. For through love, 812 3, 28 | they made themselves weak, with the foolish and simple they 813 3, 28 | showed themselves simple, and with the small insignificant. 814 3, 28 | small insignificant. And so with love they knew how to be 815 3, 28 | refusing any labor, but with zeal for souls and for the 816 3, 28 | themselves to every peril with true patience, offering 817 3, 28 | offering incense odoriferous with anxious desires, and humble 818 3, 28 | humble and continual prayers. With tears and sweat they anointed 819 3, 29 | through their love. And with this heat they cause virtues 820 3, 29 | to inspire your hearts with good thoughts by their holy 821 3, 29 | over you, and inspiring you with good and holy thoughts as 822 3, 29 | and thus I wish you to act with regard to such badly ordered 823 3, 29 | clothed in garments ragged with vice through their separation 824 3, 29 | should hate them, and strive with love and holy prayer to 825 3, 29 | washing away their foulness with your tears -- that is to 826 3, 29 | should offer them before Me with tears and great desire, 827 3, 29 | re-clothe them in My goodness, with the garment of charity. 828 3, 30 | will were in accordance with mine they would endure no 829 3, 30 | Such men as these wage war with the world, the Devil, and 830 3, 30 | and therefore renounced it with all its delights. His sensual 831 3, 30 | sensuality like a slave with the rein of reason, macerating 832 3, 30 | reason, macerating his flesh with penance, with watchings, 833 3, 30 | his flesh with penance, with watchings, and humble and 834 3, 30 | will of his senses he slew with hatred and dislike of vice, 835 3, 30 | and dislike of vice, and with love of virtue. He has entirely 836 3, 30 | natural fear and overcoming it with holy hatred of himself and 837 3, 30 | and the reason together with the free-will know by the 838 3, 30 | receiving and using these with great solicitude; to an 839 3, 30 | hatred and displeasure. And with the knife of hatred of self, 840 3, 30 | self, and love of Me, and with the light of reason, and 841 3, 30 | he conquered their malice with wisdom, yet they come round 842 3, 30 | in order to frighten him with hideous aspect, and many 843 3, 30 | has entered into the Blood with ardent love, cannot endure 844 3, 30 | you in another place, for with the eye of the intellect 845 3, 30 | of hope and seizing Him with the hands of love, she seems 846 3, 30 | this life have they lived with greater knowledge, and with 847 3, 30 | with greater knowledge, and with greater hunger for the salvation 848 3, 30 | of remaining in charity with his neighbor, to them is 849 3, 30 | do this solicitously and with love of virtue they receive, 850 3, 30 | in their very marrow, and with it they see their place 851 3, 30 | of repose in Me. The hope with which they have lived, confiding 852 3, 30 | poverty, causes them now with great delight to lift their 853 3, 30 | by their ardent charity with My name, they showed forth 854 3, 30 | name, they showed forth with the example of their good 855 3, 30 | seizes Me, who am its End, with ineffable love, restoring 856 3, 30 | man renders to Me justice with true humility, and renders 857 3, 30 | been able to run his course with a pure and holy conscience, 858 3, 30 | and holy conscience, and with himself he is indignant, 859 3, 30 | crown of justice, adorned with the pearls of the virtues -- 860 3, 30 | and drowned in His blood, with your troop of lambs of whom 861 3, 30 | demon's deception, because with supernatural light and with 862 3, 30 | with supernatural light and with the light of Holy Scripture 863 3, 30 | pass, bathed in the blood, with hunger for the salvation 864 3, 30 | salvation of souls, all on fire with love for the neighbor, having 865 3, 31 | the Devil accuses them with great terror and darkness, 866 3, 31 | wherefore the Devil torments him with infidelity in order to bring 867 3, 31 | that all was counted to him with interest, and that as a 868 3, 31 | hears nothing but reproaches with great confusion. His injustice 869 3, 31 | say that he who strikes Me with the arm of My mercy has 870 3, 31 | who would not despair, and with despair they would arrive 871 3, 31 | despair they would arrive with the Devil in eternal damnation. ~ 872 3, 31 | there remains mercy, and with this mercy he can, if he 873 3, 31 | so doing not faint away with the condemnation which they 874 3, 31 | life I use this sweet trick with them, making them hope greatly 875 3, 31 | when, having fed themselves with this hope, they arrive at 876 3, 31 | they have thought of it with great presumption. And this 877 3, 31 | spent in holiness, whereas with all their time and great 878 3, 31 | that you might gain more with it, but you in your presumption 879 3, 31 | afterwards when you are with them they may render to 880 3, 31 | even when you recited it with your mouth your heart was 881 3, 31 | your life and striking them with the hand of mercy and the 882 3, 31 | sake of gifts, but solely with regard to virtue, My honor 883 3, 31 | them before him, together with the virtues which he ought 884 3, 31 | shame, and by comparison with his sin he knows better 885 3, 31 | and shame for his sins, with hope, so that with that 886 3, 31 | sins, with hope, so that with that pain and knowledge 887 3, 31 | wherefore he exalts in Me, with this truly illuminated knowledge, 888 3, 31 | is what I have shown you with regard to what it really 889 3, 31 | according to their state; for with their stench they defile 890 3, 32 | tormented, and on fire with love, her heart wounded 891 3, 32 | love, her heart wounded with great bitterness, turned 892 3, 32 | afflicting her, but fattening her with insatiable love, and though 893 3, 32 | me, Your finite creature, with the light of Your Truth? 894 3, 32 | only-begotten Son, to converse with us filthy ones and filled 895 3, 32 | us filthy ones and filled with darkness. What was the cause 896 3, 32 | You have shown and show with so much burning love in 897 3, 32 | when I was lying infirm with the sickness of negligence 898 3, 32 | have soothed me because with Your love and gentleness 899 3, 32 | the eye of my intellect with the light of most holy faith, 900 3, 32 | light of most holy faith, with which light, according as 901 3, 32 | satisfy the soul, filling her with things for which she does 902 3, 32 | like burning lamps, shining with the Pearl of Justice in 903 3, 32 | Church. And by comparison with these I have better understood 904 3, 32 | and have recourse to You with anxious and solicitous desire, 905 3, 32 | loving, and yearning desires, with humble and continual prayer. 906 3, 32 | opening to him who knocks with perseverance. Wherefore 907 3, 32 | For what do they pray? For with the Blood of this door -- 908 3, 32 | Your holy Church to bloom with the fragrant flowers of 909 3, 32 | us before we can cry out with the voice of Your mercy. 910 3, 32 | we can knock, for it is with the affection of love which 911 4, 1 | love? From the clear vision with which His soul saw the divine 912 4, 1 | road of obedience, lit up with the light of glory. And 913 4, 1 | and nurse of charity, and with the same milk she feeds 914 4, 1 | than He did! He was sated with insults, jibes, and mockings. 915 4, 1 | foster-mother, feeds her with the darkness of infidelity, 916 4, 2 | How obedience is the key with which Heaven is opened, 917 4, 2 | creatures for My sake, and with humble patience he endures 918 4, 2 | the light of faith, and with the hand of love the gate 919 4, 2 | of impurity, breaking it with the hammer of pride, rusting 920 4, 2 | hammer of pride, rusting it with self-love. It would have 921 4, 2 | the mud, and cleansed it with His blood, and straightened 922 4, 2 | blood, and straightened it with the knife of justice, and 923 4, 2 | grace, he can repair it with the same instruments that 924 4, 2 | down and binding yourself with the chain of mortal sin, 925 4, 2 | door. But bind this key with the cord of self-contempt, 926 4, 2 | yourself to bind your loins with it, for fear you lose it. 927 4, 2 | fastening the key to it with the cord of self-contempt, 928 4, 2 | are not perfectly clothed with My pleasure, but still seek 929 4, 2 | neighbor, being anointed with true humility, which saves 930 4, 2 | of the soul, to germinate with the heat of charity, all 931 4, 2 | your face is never wrinkled with impatience, but smooth and 932 4, 2 | but smooth and pleasant with the happiness of patience, 933 4, 2 | having slain this enemy with hatred and dislike of your 934 4, 3 | and friends of the devils with whom, unless indeed they 935 4, 3 | indeed they amend themselves with patience, they will go to 936 4, 3 | exult in My eternal vision with the Immaculate and humble 937 4, 3 | judgments, and cruelty, with which you use your neighbors, 938 4, 3 | Me and to your neighbor with those done to you, and you 939 4, 3 | then, the key of obedience with the light of faith, walk 940 4, 3 | taste eternal life together with the other observers of the 941 4, 4 | they do not remain content with the general obedience of 942 4, 4 | the precepts of the Law with a general obedience as you 943 4, 5 | The soul who with love has submitted to the 944 4, 5 | which cannot respond to Me with due perfection. So she wanders, 945 4, 5 | that the soul, on fire with desire and a holy self-hatred, 946 4, 5 | or remained in the order with much imperfection, so that, 947 4, 5 | those who persevere therein with true obedience. This ship 948 4, 5 | lived virtuously, blossoming with true poverty and fraternal 949 4, 5 | of the Holy Spirit. See with what judgment Benedict ordered 950 4, 5 | Benedict ordered his ship; see with what perfection and order 951 4, 5 | ordered his ship, decked with the pearls of virtue, steering 952 4, 5 | love of the humble Lamb, with whom he was fastened and 953 4, 5 | principal foundation; as with the virtues, though all 954 4, 5 | all remain in charity, so with the principal foundation 955 4, 5 | the salvation of souls, with the light of science, which 956 4, 5 | sowed the seed of My Word with much truth and light, dissipating 957 4, 5 | table does he feed his sons with the light of science? At 958 4, 5 | this table, there to seek with the light of science, the 959 4, 5 | clothed in faith, and hoping with firm confidence in My providence, 960 4, 5 | obscure their physical light with which they may more perfectly 961 4, 5 | that all should observe it, with true and perfect obedience, 962 4, 5 | prevent the light of science with the darkness of pride, not 963 4, 5 | that he has rigged his ship with the three ropes of obedience, 964 4, 5 | ship. He allied himself with My truth, showing that he 965 4, 5 | a desert and defiled it with their scanty virtue and 966 4, 5 | glorious Thomas, who gazed with the gentle eye of his intellect 967 4, 5 | preaching, and disputation with heretics, hearing confessions, 968 4, 5 | the holy Church. Francis with the poverty which was specially 969 4, 5 | has been said, and Dominic with his learning." ~ 970 4, 6 | know the one by contrast with the other, and how he should 971 4, 6 | and particular obedience? With the light of holy faith, 972 4, 6 | must slay his self-will with the knife of hatred of every 973 4, 6 | charity gives him, together with her sister. The spouse is 974 4, 6 | truly obedient have seen with the light of faith that 975 4, 6 | through this little door with the load of their riches 976 4, 6 | and that they cannot walk with head erect without breaking 977 4, 6 | not incline their heads with humility, but proudly do 978 4, 6 | fulfill their obedience with hatred of their order and 979 4, 6 | is impossible for a man with many worldly relations, 980 4, 6 | obedient man sees from afar with the light of holy faith 981 4, 6 | rising above his own feelings with living faith, places self-hatred 982 4, 6 | spouse, Obedience, given him with the light of faith by her 983 4, 6 | sweet spouse enters his soul with her sister, Patience, and 984 4, 6 | nurse, Humility, together with Self-contempt and Self-hatred, 985 4, 6 | garden of true continence, with the sun of intellectual 986 4, 6 | Truth, and the fire of love with which she observes the rules 987 4, 6 | self-confidence do not accord with the true hope which the 988 4, 6 | and love to replace them with her friends. Wherefore with 989 4, 6 | with her friends. Wherefore with the knife of hatred he slew 990 4, 6 | will of his superior, for with the light of faith he sees 991 4, 6 | self-hatred. Wherefore he rejoices with patience, exulting with 992 4, 6 | with patience, exulting with delight and joy in the company 993 4, 6 | offended. His conversation is with those who truly fear Me, 994 4, 6 | and if he should converse with those who are separated 995 4, 6 | perfect, whether they be with just men or with sinners, 996 4, 6 | they be with just men or with sinners, through his rightly 997 4, 6 | delighting there to converse with Me, his supreme and eternal 998 4, 6 | supreme and eternal Father, with the affection of love, flying 999 4, 6 | of love, flying idleness with humble and continual prayer, 1000 4, 6 | above himself and his senses with hatred and true humility,