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1 Int | that he hears whether his prayer will be granted or not:
2 Int | supernatural experience in prayer. She was twenty in March,
3 Int | her life and the manner of prayer whereby God had led her,
4 Int | about my visions, my way of prayer, the great graces our Lord
5 Int | raised me to this state of prayer, in its fulness, and that
6 Int | here some things concerning prayer which are conformable to
7 Int, Arg | not entirely abandoning prayer so as not to lose her soul;
8 Int, Arg | exhorts everybody to practise prayer, and shows what a gain ./.
9 Int, Arg | the graces God gave her in prayer, and how much we can do
10 Int, Arg | comparison four degrees of prayer, of the first of which she
11 Int, Arg | those who find no taste in prayer.~Chapter XII.—Continuation
12 Int, Arg | explain the second degree of prayer in which God already gives
13 Int, Arg | one should behave in the prayer of quiet. She shows that
14 Int, Arg | On the third degree of prayer; she declares things of
15 Int, Arg | concerning the third degree of prayer and completes the explanation
16 Int, Arg | of the fourth degree of prayer, and begins to explain41
17 Int, Arg | those who are given to ./. prayer, to make an effort to reach
18 Int, Arg | the soul of this degree of prayer. She earnestly exhorts not
19 Int, Arg | turn back nor to give up prayer even if, after having received
20 Int, Arg | concludes this last degree of prayer, and says what a soul having
21 Int, Arg | direct souls practising prayer that they may know how to
22 Int, Arg | who are in this degree of prayer, because it is very well
23 Pref | knowledge, to states of prayer so high, that she became
24 Pref | a married man, given to prayer, and a diligent frequenter
25 Pref | consider carefully her way of prayer.~Don Francis now applied
26 Pref | together; but, after much prayer on their part and on that
27 Pref | telling her that her way of prayer was sound and the work of
28 Pref | omission.~"3. The doctrine of prayer is for the most part sound,
29 Pref | to burden yourself with a prayer for me; He knows that I
30 Pref | those who give themselves to prayer. The great experience of
31 Pref | accuracy ./. on the subject of prayer that the most learned men,
32 Pref | are going on by the way of prayer and perfection, telling
33 Pref | perfection in continual prayer, so far as it is possible
34 Pref | examination of this account of the prayer and life of this nun, and
35 Ann | lukewarm, and gives up mental prayer.~1542. ~Our Lord appears
36 Life, Pro | describe at length my way of prayer, and the workings of the
37 Life, III | if I saw any one weep in prayer, or devout in any other
38 Life, IV | which treats of the prayer of recollection. Though
39 Life, IV | not know how to make my prayer, nor how to recollect myself.
40 Life, IV | resolved to follow the way of prayer it described with all my
41 Life, IV | beginning of that way of prayer, with this book for my guide;
42 Life, IV | me so much in this way of prayer, as in His mercy to raise
43 Life, IV | mercy to raise me to the prayer of quiet, and now and then
44 Life, IV | matter. It is true that the prayer of union lasted but a short
45 Life, IV | spending of much time in prayer, then, I say, it will be
46 Life, IV | substitute for the mental prayer which is beyond his reach.~
47 Life, IV | ever ventured to begin my prayer without a book—my soul
48 Life, V | had begun the practice of prayer, so that I might bear it
49 Life, VI | to have had the grace of prayer which God had wrought in
50 Life, VI | Lord which He gave me in prayer, the great debt I owed Him,
51 Life, VI | of God came to me through prayer; and the greatest of them
52 Life, VI | Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner
53 Life, VII | special friendship as that of prayer.129 As my sins multiplied,
54 Life, VII | contributed to the abandonment of prayer. I see now most clearly,
55 Life, VII | could plunge me—to give up prayer under the pretence of humility.
56 Life, VII | afraid of giving myself to prayer, because I saw myself so
57 Life, VII | not to practise mental prayer nor commune with God so
58 Life, VII | often into solitude for prayer, read much, spoke of God,
59 Life, VII | seemed to derive myself from prayer. I thought that in this
60 Life, VII | not be a greater good than prayer; and by roundabout ways,
61 Life, VII | amidst other hindrances, true prayer consists, when the soul
62 Life, VII | for it is not necessarily prayer when we are alone; and neither
63 Life, VII | alone; and neither is it not prayer when we are not.~20. With
64 Life, VII | deprives us of time for prayer; and so I found it when
65 Life, VII | risen to great heights of prayer himself, he never remained
66 Life, VII | prevailed upon to practise prayer, though I was walking in
67 Life, VII | to him, told him about my prayer. He charged ./. me never
68 Life, VII | wretched, because I learned in prayer more and more of my faults.
69 Life, VII | 28. I suffered much in prayer; for the spirit was slave,
70 Life, VII | my power then to give up prayer, because He held me in His
71 Life, VII | those who give themselves to prayer, particularly at first,
72 Life, VII | to helping one another by prayer: how much more, seeing that
73 Life, VII | for they who are given to prayer are thoroughly accustomed
74 Life, VII | discussing his method of prayer falls into vain-glory will
75 Life, VII | frequently to persons given to prayer, I should have gone on falling
76 Life, VIII | Saint Ceases Not to Pray. Prayer the Way to Recover What
77 Life, VIII | The Great Advantage of Prayer, Even to Those Who May Have
78 Life, VIII | on the strong pillar of prayer. I passed nearly twenty
79 Life, VIII | Lord, gave myself much to prayer, and took some pains, and
80 Life, VIII | a great part of them in prayer were few, unless I was very
81 Life, VIII | eight-and-twenty years of prayer, I spent more than eighteen
82 Life, VIII | He who gives himself to prayer is in possession of a great
83 Life, VIII | let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be
84 Life, VIII | life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it,
85 Life, VIII | to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much
86 Life, VIII | amply rewarded; for mental prayer is nothing else, in my opinion,
87 Life, VIII | are afraid to begin mental prayer, nor do I know what it is
88 Life, VIII | for me. That was all my prayer, and had been, when I was
89 Life, VIII | appointed for myself to spend in prayer, and in watching the hour-glass,
90 Life, VIII | than prepare myself for prayer by self-recollection. And
91 Life, VIII | did not betake myself to prayer; and the sadness I felt
92 Life, VIII | is plain that it was by prayer all my evil was corrected—
93 Life, VIII | but rather offend Him, prayer be all this, and so necessary,
94 Life, VIII | to those who persevere in prayer,152 I do not speak of it
95 Life, VIII | here; only this will I say: prayer is the door to those great
96 Life, VIII | me that I did not give up prayer and spiritual reading, and
97 Life, VIII | how I occupied myself in prayer, I seemed to them to have
98 Life, VIII | time after I gave myself to prayer. At one time I had great
99 Life, IX | 4. This was my method of prayer: as I could not make reflections
100 Life, IX | myself most at home in the prayer in the Garden, whither I
101 Life, IX | little of this mystery of the prayer in the Garden—yea, even
102 Life, IX | because I began to practise prayer without knowing what it
103 Life, IX | pleasure to lead quickly to the prayer of quiet. I know of some.
104 Life, IX | way to give myself more to prayer, and to occupy myself less
105 Life, X | The Graces She Received in Prayer. What We Can Do Ourselves.
106 Life, X | to be good. These joys in prayer are like what those of heaven
107 Life, X | All this is the fruit of prayer founded on humility. What,
108 Life, X | of that which relates to prayer, it will be obscure enough
109 Life, XI | God. Of Four Degrees of Prayer. Of the First Degree. The
110 Life, XI | follow Him in the way of prayer, who has loved us so much.
111 Life, XI | In the other degrees of prayer, there is more of fruition;
112 Life, XI | determined to give itself to prayer, and has begun the practice
113 Life, XI | measure, the four degrees of prayer to which our Lord, of His
114 Life, XI | those who are beginners in prayer, we may say, that they are
115 Life, XI | them during the time of prayer; they must be alone, and
116 Life, XI | here, nor ever intermit his prayer; and so let him resolve,
117 Life, XI | bear when persevering in prayer seem to me ever afterwards
118 Life, XI | walk in the way of mental prayer with resolution, and is
119 Life, XI | should be made in the hour of prayer, and oftentimes that change
120 Life, XI | not always right to omit prayer when the understanding is
121 Life, XII | profitable in all states of prayer, and is a most safe way
122 Life, XII(180) | That is, he will lose the prayer of acquired quiet, because
123 Life, XII(180) | and will not attain to the prayer of infused quiet, because
124 Life, XII | matter because this way of prayer is the most common with
125 Life, XIII | with more vigour resume our prayer.~2. Discretion is necessary
126 Life, XIII | because anxieties disturb prayer. It is painful to me that
127 Life, XIII | said before,191 to make my prayer, and, at the same time,
128 Life, XIII | the rest and the fruit of prayer, they will have everybody
129 Life, XIII | others apply themselves to prayer, to be a source of temptation
130 Life, XIII | things of the blessedness of prayer, and, on the other, saw
131 Life, XIII | virtue, notwithstanding my prayer. They had good reasons on
132 Life, XIII | which would apply itself to prayer lies in casting away from
133 Life, XIII | yet they must not, when prayer is sweet, suppose that there
134 Life, XIII | further; for the doctrine of prayer is difficult, and, without
135 Life, XIII | write on the subject of prayer, yet so it is, my dulness
136 Life, XIII | obtain. This is a method of prayer which should be to everyone
137 Life, XIII | already raised her to the prayer of quiet; so she had much
138 Life, XIII | among all the states of prayer, however high they may be,
139 Life, XIII | they may be, in the way of prayer; without this bread, life
140 Life, XIII | if they are not men of prayer. I do not say that they
141 Life, XIII | were not accompanied with prayer. Learning is a great thing,
142 Life, XIII | A nun begins to practise prayer; if her director be silly,
143 Life, XIII | her to give herself unto prayer, when she ought to attend
144 Life, XIII | They who walk in the way of prayer have the greater need of
145 Life, XIII | learned men not given to prayer are not fit counsellors
146 Life, XIII | myself that a person given to prayer, who treats of these matters
147 Life, XIII | suited for persons given to prayer. I have just said that a
148 Life, XIII | ourselves a little more to prayer, that we are raised above
149 Life, XIII | many to quicken us. Our prayer must therefore be very earnest
150 Life, XIII | in the beginning of his prayer, he will find great advantage;
151 Life, XIII | advantage; and this way of prayer brings great advantages
152 Life, XIV | XIV.~The Second State of Prayer. Its Supernatural Character.~
153 Life, XIV | describe; and I apply it to the prayer called the prayer of quiet.~
154 Life, XIV | to the prayer called the prayer of quiet.~2. Herein the
155 Life, XIV | labour is so slight, that prayer, even if persevered in for
156 Life, XIV | in the previous state of prayer; for the soul is already
157 Life, XIV | in pieces by penance and prayer, and every other kind of
158 Life, XIV | one of these degrees of prayer; for I have suffered greatly,
159 Life, XIV | a soul much exercised in prayer, it will find it enough
160 Life, XIV | the highest perfection of prayer.~12. The little time I have
161 Life, XIV | years may have been spent in prayer. And thus I think it a very
162 Life, XIV | advantage to be in this state of prayer when I am writing this;
163 Life, XV | Who Have Attained to the Prayer of Quiet. Many Advance So
164 Life, XV | they do not resume their prayer, they may go on from bad
165 Life, XV | there be no giving up of prayer; it is by prayer they will
166 Life, XV | giving up of prayer; it is by prayer they will understand what
167 Life, XV | others by myself.213~6. The prayer of quiet, then, is a little
168 Life, XV | wherein it is raised to the prayer of quiet is nothing more
169 Life, XV | desire to be heard. This is a prayer that contains much, and
170 Life, XV | them, both before and after prayer, still, in the very time
171 Life, XV | still, in the very time of prayer itself, there is little
172 Life, XV | the Psalms, when in the prayer of quiet, not only to understand
173 Life, XV | when the soul is in the prayer of quiet, let it repose
174 Life, XV | rhetoric. In a word, mental prayer is not to be abandoned altogether
175 Life, XV | altogether now, nor even vocal prayer, if at any time we wish,
176 Life, XV | to betake itself often to prayer in its desire for it. And
177 Life, XV | in all things relating to prayer and sweetness, we must be
178 Life, XV | speaking of the first degree of prayer, and of the first method
179 Life, XV | use of the first armour of prayer, to call to mind how everything
180 Life, XV | great desire of advancing in prayer, and of never giving it
181 Life, XVI | XVI.~The Third State of Prayer. Deep Matters. What the
182 Life, XVI | than in the former state of prayer; and the reason is, that
183 Life, XVI(227) | begin, I think, with the prayer of infused recollection,
184 Life, XVI | raised me to this state of prayer, in its fulness, and that
185 Life, XVI | than the previous state of prayer; but I confess that I could
186 Life, XVI | admitted me to this state of prayer, without the power of going
187 Life, XVII | XVII.~The Third State of Prayer. The Effects Thereof. The
188 Life, XVII | been said of this manner of prayer, and of what the soul has
189 Life, XVII | meaning is that, in a state of prayer, so high as this, the soul
190 Life, XVII | were during the preceding prayer of quiet; for the soul sees
191 Life, XVII | willingly.~5. This state of prayer seems to me to be a most
192 Life, XVII | 6. It differs from the prayer of quiet, of which I have
193 Life, XVII | all one with it. In that prayer, the soul, which would willingly
194 Life, XVII | repose of Mary; but in this prayer it can be like Martha also.239
195 Life, XVII | when I was describing the prayer of quiet:241 to make no
196 Life, XVII | In all these states of prayer of which I have spoken,
197 Life, XVII | explain these states of prayer, wherein the soul finds
198 Life, XVIII | XVIII.~The Fourth State of Prayer. The Great Dignity of the
199 Life, XVIII | signs. In the whole of the prayer already spoken of, and in
200 Life, XVIII | in the preceding state of prayer, so also now, His Majesty
201 Life, XVIII | attained to these states of prayer whereunto our Lord in His
202 Life, XVIII | happens after much mental prayer. Our Lord advances step
203 Life, XVIII | outward joy now felt.~15. This prayer, however long it may last,
204 Life, XVIII | may be, and are, passed in prayer; for when the two faculties
205 Life, XVIII | had risen from the very prayer of which I am speaking.
206 Life, XVIII | it otherwise with vocal prayer. Accordingly, the restless
207 Life, XIX | of This Fourth State of Prayer. Earnest Exhortations to
208 Life, XIX | Back, Nor to Cease from Prayer, Even If They Fall. The
209 Life, XIX | remains in the soul, when the prayer of union is over, an exceedingly
210 Life, XIX | occasionally, when this prayer was over, to be so beside
211 Life, XIX | in the previous states of prayer; and grows in humility more
212 Life, XIX | The good effects of this prayer abide in the soul for some
213 Life, XIX | them to so high a degree of prayer as this is, they must not
214 Life, XIX | begun to give himself to prayer be discouraged, and say:
215 Life, XIX | now with the practice of prayer. I think so too, if he gives
216 Life, XIX | think so too, if he gives up prayer, and does not correct his
217 Life, XIX | but if he does not give up prayer, let him be assured of this—
218 Life, XIX | him be assured of this—prayer will bring him to the haven
219 Life, XIX | humility if I persevered in prayer when I was so wicked, that—
220 Life, XIX | soul which perseveres in prayer, and that every fall which
221 Life, XIX | these: How could I make my prayer, who was so wicked, and
222 Life, XIX | those who give themselves to prayer, for the love of God, look
223 Life, XIX | my purpose of resuming my prayer; but I was waiting to be
224 Life, XIX | when I applied myself to prayer and to spiritual reading,
225 Life, XIX | else but the giving up of prayer. God, of His mercy, keeps
226 Life, XIX | great graces from God in prayer, must never rely on itself,
227 Life, XIX | by tempting it to give up prayer, as he tempted me, through
228 Life, XX | been pleased to hear my prayer; for I have never been enraptured
229 Life, XX | wherein I gave myself to prayer, in which our Lord gave
230 Life, XX | that what I once had in prayer and loneliness—therein
231 Life, XX | as I said of the previous prayer of union,287 this utter
232 Life, XX | of the previous state of prayer,288—the rapture is not
233 Life, XX | especially if they are men of prayer, and have received consolations
234 Life, XXI | same complaint and the same prayer: the desire of life is more
235 Life, XXI | prescribed by writers on prayer,—who discuss the principles
236 Life, XXI | grave men—men given to prayer, men of religion—make
237 Life, XXII | necessary; for in some books on prayer the writers say that the
238 Life, XXII | some degree of supernatural prayer,—I speak of the prayer
239 Life, XXII | prayer,—I speak of the prayer of quiet,—I laboured to
240 Life, XXII | before Him. This method of prayer is full of sweetness, if
241 Life, XXII | to be a real hindrance to prayer.~4. O Lord of my soul, and
242 Life, XXII | after advancing to the prayer of union, make no further
243 Life, XXII | He does in the states of prayer already described,—it
244 Life, XXII | the whole foundation of prayer must be laid in humility,
245 Life, XXII | a soul humbles itself in prayer, the more God lifts it up.
246 Life, XXII | itself in the way of the prayer of union, and though it
247 Life, XXII | consolation or sweetness, not in prayer,—the consolations of the
248 Life, XXII | than in the first state of prayer, and it does much greater
249 Life, XXII | discuss what I have written on prayer with spiritual persons,
250 Life, XXII | a moment attained to the prayer of quiet, think forthwith
251 Life, XXIII | explain these methods of prayer, is the life which God lived
252 Life, XXIII | to give myself more unto prayer, our Lord also began to
253 Life, XXIII | frequently the grace of the prayer of quiet, and very often
254 Life, XXIII | especially when I was in prayer. I saw, too, that I grew
255 Life, XXIII | withdraw me from mental prayer, hinder my meditation on
256 Life, XXIII | their way of life and of prayer; but I did not think myself
257 Life, XXIII | tell me what that method of prayer was which I was using, and
258 Life, XXIII | virtuous, so given to ./. prayer, and so full of charity,
259 Life, XXIII | believe, nearly forty years in prayer,—it may be two or three
260 Life, XXIII | of my soul, and my way of prayer. He would not be my confessor;
261 Life, XXIII | according to the method of prayer which he saw I used,—so
262 Life, XXIII | consider my whole method of prayer, and then tell him of it.
263 Life, XXIII | could tell him nothing of my prayer; for the grace to understand
264 Life, XXIII | which I might recognise the prayer I practised, I found in
265 Life, XXIII | of nothing when I was in prayer. I marked that passage,
266 Life, XXIII | would give up that method of prayer altogether; for why should
267 Life, XXIII | soul would become without prayer. Everything seemed full
268 Life, XXIII | with whom I spoke of my prayer did not keep my secret,
269 Life, XXIII | me to go back again to my prayer, because I was not well
270 Life, XXIII | was by no means to give up prayer; on the contrary, I was
271 Life, XXIII | soul! He told me to make my prayer every day on some mystery
272 Life, XXIV | order to obtain sweetness in prayer, it was necessary for me
273 Life, XXIV | most Sacred Humanity; my prayer began to be solid, like
274 Life, XXIV | not recollect myself in prayer till I had got rid of it.
275 Life, XXIV | an account of my way of prayer; for they knew him to be
276 Life, XXIV | I should always begin my prayer by meditating on some part
277 Life, XXIV | a widow, much given to prayer, who had much to do with
278 Life, XXIV | God, or persons given to prayer. It is to me a painful cross
279 Life, XXV | way or other whether his prayer will be granted or not,
280 Life, XXV | it has for being quiet in prayer without these interruptions.
281 Life, XXV | persons who have advanced in prayer only so far as this may
282 Life, XXV | God had led me on to the prayer of union,—unless it be
283 Life, XXV | whenever I was not occupied in prayer; but when I prayed, and
284 Life, XXV | when I spoke to them of my prayer, as if I were a person under
285 Life, XXV | I did not offend God, my prayer, even if it was the work
286 Life, XXV | subject of my continual prayer to our Lord.~21. But there
287 Life, XXV | that I was never alone for prayer, our Lord made me recollected
288 Life, XXV | against all the world that my prayer was the work of God. Oh,
289 Life, XXVI | She Was Assured That Her Prayer Was the Work of the Holy
290 Life, XXVI | inflicted on me disturbed my prayer. Whenever I was resolved
291 Life, XXVI(380)| Alvarez gave of his own prayer to the General of the Society.~
292 Life, XXVI | commanded me to do one thing in prayer, and if my confessor forbade
293 Life, XXVII | end of two years spent in prayer by myself and others for
294 Life, XXVII | happened to me. I was in prayer one day,—it was the feast
295 Life, XXVII | my soul was deeper in the prayer of quiet, and more continuous,
296 Life, XXVII | who have attained to the prayer of union and of quiet, when
297 Life, XXVII | very commencement of our prayer, to find Him with whom we
298 Life, XXVII | is a very high degree of prayer; but it is not vision. God
299 Life, XXVII | Son of the Virgin. In the prayer of union and of quiet, certain
300 Life, XXVII | recollected and given to prayer. Such is the state of the
301 Life, XXVII | have been when he was in prayer; for he was subject to trances,
302 Life, XXVIII | Lord, one day that I was in prayer, to show me His Hands, and
303 Life, XXVIII | shall have attained to the prayer of quiet only will, I believe,
304 Life, XXVIII | was a man much given to prayer, and learned, he never trusted
305 Life, XXIX | hardships; and I came away from prayer consoled, and with renewed
306 Life, XXIX | they made me give up my prayer.430 He told me to say to
307 Life, XXIX | I never ceased to be in prayer: even during sleep my prayer
308 Life, XXIX | prayer: even during sleep my prayer seemed to be continual;
309 Life, XXIX | are beyond control. That prayer is of a much lower order;
310 Life, XXIX | should be kept in quiet. This prayer is like the sobbing of little
311 Life, XXIX | afterwards unable to resume my prayer. Great discretion, therefore,
312 Life, XXX | little books, in Spanish, on prayer, which are now in common
313 Life, XXX | to those who are given to prayer. He kept the first rule
314 Life, XXX | Lord is very bountiful in prayer, it pleased His Majesty
315 Life, XXX | my life, and of my way of prayer, with the utmost clearness
316 Life, XXX | bidding me continue my prayer with confidence, ./. and
317 Life, XXX | aridity and indisposition for prayer and for every good work,
318 Life, XXX | it was my habit to make prayer my joy. Then the devil seizes
319 Life, XXX | former experience. Vocal prayer or solitude is only a greater
320 Life, XXX | I read on the subject of prayer, I thought I understood
321 Life, XXX | had given me the gift of prayer. I therefore ceased to read
322 Life, XXX | attained to this degree of prayer; and so, when I could not
323 Life, XXXI | said: I was so absorbed in prayer that I understood nothing,
324 Life, XXXI | prevent my finishing my prayer. I made the sign of the
325 Life, XXXI | away. I then returned to my prayer, and he, too, came back;
326 Life, XXXI | was not able to finish the prayer without throwing holy water
327 Life, XXXI | between persons given to prayer and many who were not, which
328 Life, XXXI | a particular subject of prayer, that it might please His
329 Life, XXXI | all the books written on prayer and on contemplation an
330 Life, XXXI | unless they be given to prayer; with many other things
331 Life, XXXI | enable them to attain to by prayer, and by doing what they
332 Life, XXXI | help of God, obtained by prayer and much striving on his
333 Life, XXXI | pestilence in the way of prayer.~25. Are we striving after
334 Life, XXXII | nature, I was one day in prayer when I found myself in a
335 Life, XXXII | pass; for among people of prayer, and indeed in the whole
336 Life, XXXII | whole foundation was laid in prayer. He saw also very many difficulties
337 Life, XXXIII | it, not even those men of prayer with whom I conversed; for
338 Life, XXXIII | about my visions, my way of prayer, the great graces our Lord
339 Life, XXXIII | himself more and more to prayer, and retired to a monastery
340 Life, XXXIII | himself more effectually to prayer, where he remained more
341 Life, XXXIII | raised up, so recollected in prayer and softened, that I was
342 Life, XXXIV | what I had understood in prayer, though in the greatest
343 Life, XXXIV | was then recollected in prayer, it seemed to me a waste
344 Life, XXXIV | that during those hours of prayer on that very night I was
345 Life, XXXIV | our Lord would grant my prayer as to that religious. He
346 Life, XXXIV | earnestness to give himself to prayer, though he did not do so
347 Life, XXXIV | Lord bestowed upon him in prayer; for they are real. It has
348 Life, XXXIV | about certain matters of prayer, when I had so little myself
349 Life, XXXIV | our Lord said to me in prayer that my sister also was
350 Life, XXXV(511)| Pope Pius IV. heard her prayer, and, looking at her torn
351 Life, XXXV | woman of great penance and prayer, and one to whom our Lord
352 Life, XXXV | yet, when I returned to my prayer, and saw Christ on the cross,
353 Life, XXXV | from me all sweetness in prayer. In short, I was in such
354 Life, XXXV | of spending many hours in prayer; and I saw that I was going
355 Life, XXXV | for once, when I was in prayer, He told me that this house
356 Life, XXXV | enclosure, poverty, and prayer are so strictly observed;
357 Life, XXXVI | beside myself, lost in prayer.~6. When all was done—
358 Life, XXXVI | was to be made, I was in prayer,—the discussion of the
359 Life, XXXVI | remained in the choir in prayer after Compline, I saw our
360 Life, XXXVIII | might be excused making my prayer; so I took my rosary, that
361 Life, XXXVIII | might employ myself in vocal prayer, trying not to be recollected
362 Life, XXXVIII | things. He was so given to prayer, that when he was dying,
363 Life, XXXVIII | One night, when I was in prayer, our Lord spoke to me certain
364 Life, XXXVIII | and on betaking myself to prayer for consolation, have received
365 Life, XXXIX | that it was not owing to my prayer; but, as I had had the vision,
366 Life, XXXIX | soul. I saw by this that my prayer was ./. granted; and so
367 Life, XXXIX | some days given himself to prayer, in which he bad received
368 Life, XXXIX | One day, when I was in prayer, I saw a devil close by
369 Life, XXXIX | because it seemed that my prayer had been heard. So it was,
370 Life, XXXIX | these things in answer to my prayer; I say nothing of the chief
371 Life, XXXIX | willing listener.~10. The prayer that is not to be heard
372 Life, XXXIX | so to speak, like vocal prayer; the other is a prayer of
373 Life, XXXIX | vocal prayer; the other is a prayer of contemplation so high
374 Life, XXXIX | that He delights in our prayer, and that He is about to
375 Life, XXXIX | given to the exercise of prayer; we even think we can prescribe
376 Life, XXXIX | years they may have spent in prayer; for one person may make
377 Life, XXXIX | gives them sweetness in prayer, and then they wait for
378 Life, XXXIX | given themselves long ago to prayer, but not for the purpose
379 Life, XXXIX | express my preference for the prayer that in a short time results
380 Life, XXXIX | I would rather have that prayer than that which lasted many
381 Life, XXXIX | the years we have given to prayer; for, granting that there
382 Life, XXXIX | he has given himself to prayer for many years, that he
383 Life, XXXIX | will not reward it, if its prayer has been humble; but I do
384 Life, XXXIX | vision.595~25. I was in prayer, and saw myself on a wide
385 Life, XL | Locutions.~1. One day, in prayer, the sweetness of which
386 Life, XL | is laid down in books on prayer, where they speak of where
387 Life, XL | force themselves to give up prayer at that time, and resume
388 Life, XL | here.~13. Once, when in prayer, I had a vision, for a moment,
389 Life, XL | me so long!~17. Once, in prayer, with much recollection,
390 Life, XL | another time, when I was in prayer, I fell into a trance, and
391 Life, XL | than I wish.~26. I was in prayer one night, when it was time
392 Rel, I(622) | were convinced that her prayer was a delusion of Satan:
393 Rel, I(622) | but as soon as she is in prayer, and recollected, she cannot
394 Rel, I | Avila.622~1. The method of prayer I observe at present is
395 Rel, I | present is this: when I am in prayer, it is very rarely that
396 Rel, I | other matters, and when prayer seems to be beyond my power,
397 Rel, I | whose conversation is of prayer and matters of the soul,
398 Rel, I | I have not enough for my prayer, for I should never be tired
399 Rel, I | my reading is turned into prayer: and it is but rarely, for
400 Rel, I | since He raised me to this prayer of quiet, and sent these
401 Rel, I | our Lord, or to make my prayer; and yet, for all this,
402 Rel, I | cannot help it—even about prayer, and if the conversation
403 Rel, I | wicked.~20. When I am in prayer, and even almost always
404 Rel, I | deep an impression on me in prayer, that I am amazed at the
405 Rel, I | used to give themselves to prayer fall away; this gives me
406 Rel, I | myself. But when I am in prayer, and during those days when
407 Rel, I | that, when I rise from my prayer, I see that I have received
408 Rel, II | Lord has taught me a way of prayer, wherein I find myself far
409 Rel, II | the first time I go to prayer, I have no ill-feeling against
410 Rel, II | which I have been warned in prayer, have been perfectly verified.
411 Rel, II | in that which relates to prayer, are so moderated, that
412 Rel, II | particularly if I am in prayer. It must be very great,
413 Rel, II | Everything that I have learnt in prayer, though it may be two years
414 Rel, III | occupied myself always with prayer, I heard this: "During this
415 Rel, III | 13. Once, when I was in prayer, He showed me by a certain
416 Rel, III | this I remained in that prayer which I still practise,
417 Rel, III | other way." When I began my prayer that day, my headache was
418 Rel, IV | this morning; and, being in prayer, I fell into a profound
419 Rel, V | that it is always in this prayer of union: and yet it is
420 Rel, V | of the kind relating to prayer. These things are to be
421 Rel, VII | great when she was not in prayer; though in everything relating
422 Rel, VII(687) | extraordinary processes in prayer, such as ecstasies, raptures,
423 Rel, VII(687) | nor to examine ways of prayer, but to correct heretics.
424 Rel, VII(687) | conversant with matters of prayer; and when you shall have
425 Rel, VII | great learning in the way of prayer, and to rest content with
426 Rel, VII | they were not much given to prayer, for she had no other desire
427 Rel, VII | give themselves greatly to prayer, and perhaps all did. Some
428 Rel, VII | obey them. Both her own prayer, and that of the nuns she
429 Rel, VII | because it came to her in prayer; on the contrary, when her
430 Rel, VII | things; this is her continual prayer. And she is, she thinks,
431 Rel, VIII | understood.~3. The first prayer of which I was conscious,
432 Rel, VIII | with God alone. In this prayer there is no suspension of
433 Rel, VIII | —I mean by this, vocal prayer and meditation; it would
434 Rel, VIII | long time.~5. Out of this prayer comes usually what is called
435 Rel, VIII | and in all these kinds of prayer there is more or less of
436 Rel, VIII | these and other ways of prayer are explained at length,703
437 Rel, VIII | without being preceded by prayer, and this is most frequently
438 Rel, VIII | it bears all.~16. Another prayer very common is a certain
439 Rel, VIII | this liberty.706~18. This prayer I had before the raptures
440 Rel, VIII | remember another way of prayer which I had before the one
441 Rel, IX | one night, when I was in prayer, and thinking how he failed
442 Rel, IX | not over."~5. One day, in prayer, I felt my soul in God in
443 Rel, IX | help thee." This was in prayer, which was of such a nature
444 Rel, IX | still my anxiety hindered my prayer. He appeared to me on the
445 Ind | Amendment of life, the work of prayer, viii. 6–12.~Amusements,
446 Ind | on in the second state of prayer, xv. 15.~Art, the, of serving
447 Ind | Blindness healed through the prayer of the Saint, xxxix. 1.~
448 Ind | soul in certain states of prayer, xvii. 14, xviii. 15; state
449 Ind | Saint to practise mental prayer, vii. 16; makes progress
450 Ind | desired by souls in the prayer of imperfect union, xvi.
451 Ind | xxxiv. 20; necessity of, for prayer, xi. 16, xv. 17; of the
452 Ind | the understanding in the prayer of quiet, xv. 10, xxx. 19;
453 Ind | of, xxi. 1.~Garden, the prayer in the, ix. 5; the soul
454 Ind | from, Rel. iv. 6.~Grace, prayer the door of, viii. 13; comes
455 Ind | never to be lost sight of in prayer, xxii. 11; the Saint directed
456 Ind | raptures, xx. 38; foundation of prayer must be laid in, xxii. 16;
457 Ind | xiv. 14.~Impetuosities in prayer, xxix. 11–13, Rel. i.
458 Ind | xxxvi. 5; the teacher of prayer, vi. 12; encourages the
459 Ind | of, xxxix. 14.~Joys, of prayer, x. 3; of visions, xxvii.
460 Ind | with humility, a help to prayer, xii. 6; useful in directors,
461 Ind | xiv. 9; not necessary in prayer, xv. 12.~Lie, a, Satan is,
462 Ind | 20.~Memory, the, in the prayer of imperfect union, xvii.
463 Ind | because of many years spent in prayer, xxxix. 21.~Persecution,
464 Ind | xxxiii. 5.~Perseverance in prayer, viii. 5; fruits of, xi.
465 Ind | Rel. i. 10, Rel. ii. 2.~Prayer, mental, viii. 7; blessings
466 Ind | xii. 3; effects of, in the prayer of quiet, xiv. 8; different
467 Ind | devotion to, xix. 9.~Quiet, the prayer of, iv. 9, ix. 6, xiv. 1,
468 Ind | xii. 10; impossible in the prayer of perfect union, xviii.
469 Ind | Rel. i. 7.~Recollection, prayer of, xiv. 2, Rel. viii. 3.~
470 Ind | making, when dangerous in prayer, xv. 11.~Reform, the Carmelite,
471 Ind | tempted the Saint to give up prayer, xix. 8; a lie, xxv. 26;
472 Ind | the, suspension of, in the prayer of perfect union, xviii.
473 Ind | 2.~Sight restored at the prayer of the Saint, xxxix. 1.~
474 Ind | xi. 10, xiv. 13; in the prayer of quiet, xv. 1; growth
475 Ind | xv. 20; powers of, in the prayer of imperfect union, xvi.
476 Ind | the Passion, ix. 1; in the prayer of quiet, xiv. 5; in the
477 Ind | of quiet, xiv. 5; in the prayer of perfect union, xix. 1,
478 Ind | grievously, vi. 1; afraid of prayer, vi. 5; leads her father
479 Ind | 5; leads her father to prayer, vii. 16; present at her
480 Ind | vii. 22; perseveres in prayer, viii. 2; found it hard
481 Ind | xii. 11; reads books on prayer to no purpose, xiv. 10;
482 Ind | understands her state in the prayer of imperfect union, xvi.
483 Ind | had no visions before the prayer of union, xxv. 14; told
484 Ind | Understanding, the, use of in prayer, xiii. 17; disorderly, xv.
485 Ind | xxviii. 10.~Union, imperfect, prayer of, xvi. 1; a mystical death,
486 Ind | how it differs from the prayer of quiet, xvii. 5, 6; another
487 Ind | xviii. 1.~Union, perfect, prayer of, xviii. 1; the senses
488 Ind | fruits of, xix. 4.~Union, prayer of, iv. 9; followed by visions
489 Ind | Virtue, growth of, in the prayer of quiet, xiv. 6; and in
490 Ind | Will, the state of, in the prayer of quiet, xiv. 4, xv. 2,
491 Ind | xiv. 4, xv. 2, 10; in the prayer of imperfect union, xviii.