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1 Int | arrangements for the dowry. One little detail concerning her haste
2 Int | in my story, to say very little or nothing at all."22 In
3 Int, Arg | practise obedience, and how little she was able to resist God'
4 Int, Arg | by her sins. She tells a little44 of what she saw there
5 Pref | vain-glory, and would do little honour to goodness; on the
6 Life, I | could—and I could but little. I contrived to be alone,
7 Life, I | about twelve years old—a little less. When I began to understand
8 Life, II | reading these books; and this little fault which I observed in
9 Life, II | nearly of mine own age—a little older, perhaps. We were
10 Life, II | about fourteen years old, a little more, I think—I do not
11 Life, III | the safest. And thus, by little and little, I resolved to
12 Life, III | And thus, by little and little, I resolved to force myself
13 Life, IV | necessary for him, however little it may be that he reads,
14 Life, IV | more. Sometimes, I read but little; at other times, much—
15 Life, IV | good resolutions were of little service—though, in those
16 Life, V | learning at all, than a little; for such confessors never
17 Life, V | because I had then but little to confess in comparison
18 Life, V | enchantments, by giving him a little image made of copper, which
19 Life, V | pleasure, he gave me that little image of copper, and I had
20 Life, V | consumptive. This gave me little or no concern; what distressed
21 Life, VI | and then, because I had a little rest, I considered myself
22 Life, VI | it is to love Him. In a little while, I saw these virtues
23 Life, VI | my faults, when I saw how little I improved, seeing that
24 Life, VI | confessors, who helped me so little. If they had told me that
25 Life, VI | all that is good, has but little discretion. But I ask, for
26 Life, VI | how far my strength and little virtue can reach, if Thou
27 Life, VI | Thou didst withdraw but a little from me, I fell down to
28 Life, VII | religious observance is so little used, that the friar and
29 Life, VII | me in every way! and how little I profited by those warnings!~
30 Life, VII | when we are not.~20. With a little care, we may find great
31 Life, VII | other vanities, I cared little about this.~21. My father
32 Life, VII | evil, and revealed some little virtue—if so be I had
33 Life, VIII | true; but I remember very little of those good days, and
34 Life, VIII | enough, though I have but little humility, to presume to
35 Life, VIII | from God, yet he will by little and little attain to a knowledge
36 Life, VIII | yet he will by little and little attain to a knowledge of
37 Life, VIII | charges, seeing that for a little trouble He gives sweetness,
38 Life, VIII | great sufferings, and the little help it had from any one
39 Life, VIII | understand how all is of little profit if we do not root
40 Life, IX | I used always to think a little of this mystery of the prayer
41 Life, IX | another way.156~7. I was so little able to put things before
42 Life, IX | with dread when I see how little I could do with myself,
43 Life, IX | suffered from seeing how little humility I had, brought
44 Life, X | If with this there be a little love, the soul is comforted,
45 Life, X | and as the blessed see how little merit they had, every one
46 Life, X | praised and magnified a little, when men shall see that
47 Life, XI | who perseveres. He will by little and little strengthen that
48 Life, XI | perseveres. He will by little and little strengthen that soul, so
49 Life, XI | they have need, not of a little, but of a very great, resolution,
50 Life, XII | away, and the soul is a little disgusted: it feels like
51 Life, XII | it to others. This was no little trouble to me. When His
52 Life, XII | advantage whatever, much or little, from their teaching.~11.
53 Life, XIII | relax themselves ever so little. It is right to be afraid
54 Life, XIII | confidence in ourselves, much or little, we may not place ourselves
55 Life, XIII | violence to ourselves by little and little, we shall, though
56 Life, XIII | ourselves by little and little, we shall, though not at
57 Life, XIII | desire, and had never by little and little acted upon that
58 Life, XIII | had never by little and little acted upon that resolve,
59 Life, XIII | ascends high, though, like a little bird whose wings are weak,
60 Life, XIII | unmanageable. When he sees us a little anxious about them, he wants
61 Life, XIII | light; for they can do so little of themselves, that their
62 Life, XIII | great a King, and sees how little it pays of the great debt
63 Life, XIII | beginners learned men are of little use, if they are not men
64 Life, XIII | it teaches us who know so little, and enlightens us; so when
65 Life, XIII | we give ./. ourselves a little more to prayer, that we
66 Life, XIV | wretched state, and some little knowledge of the blissfulness
67 Life, XIV | austerities, all would be of little use, if our Lord did not
68 Life, XIV | discussed, they threw very little light upon it. And if it
69 Life, XIV | perfection of prayer.~12. The little time I have helps me but
70 Life, XIV | time I have helps me but little, and it is therefore necessary
71 Life, XIV | very many interruptions, by little and little at a time. I
72 Life, XIV | interruptions, by little and little at a time. I wish I had
73 Life, XIV | increase the fragrance of the little flowers of virtues—which
74 Life, XV | even breathe.210 The poor little soul is not aware that,
75 Life, XV | labour at all to keep this little spark of the love of God
76 Life, XV | prayer of quiet, then, is a little spark of the true love of
77 Life, XV | quiet and recollection and little spark, if it is the work
78 Life, XV | souls to possess.~7. This little spark is a sign or pledge
79 Life, XV | discretion to quench this little spark; and let it confess
80 Life, XV | profound reflections. A little straw,—and it will be
81 Life, XV | prayer itself, there is little necessity for it, in my
82 Life, XV | may help poor people of little learning, of whom I am one.
83 Life, XV | Infinite Wisdom, believe me, a little striving after humility,
84 Life, XV | 16. Here Satan can do little or no harm, if the soul
85 Life, XVI | in my story, to say very little or nothing at all. I knew
86 Life, XVI | clearly that the martyrs did little or nothing, so far as they
87 Life, XVI | their fire throws out but little heat. I do not say that
88 Life, XVII | it did neither much nor little, beyond giving its consent
89 Life, XVII | no help, neither much nor little, in the matters put before
90 Life, XVIII | —and I have need of no little grace for that end, being
91 Life, XVIII | so, with the other; but a little fire, also, is as much fire
92 Life, XVIII | iron is made red-hot in a little fire, some time must pass;
93 Life, XVIII | step to lay hold of the little bird, and to lay it in the
94 Life, XVIII | Accordingly, the restless little butterfly of the memory
95 Life, XIX | own eyes behold how very little it could ever do, or rather,
96 Life, XIX | I thought it showed but little humility if I persevered
97 Life, XIX | reverential enough, and made too little of the mercies of God. There
98 Life, XIX | he might have led me by little and little, as he led Judas,
99 Life, XIX | have led me by little and little, as he led Judas, to the
100 Life, XX | struggle, and, in short, of little use, whenever our Lord so
101 Life, XX | to speak, it would be of little use: the spirit, notwithstanding
102 Life, XX | when I called to mind how little I had deserved it. Blessed
103 Life, XX | What restlessness! how little satisfaction! what labour
104 Life, XX | blinded by the dust: the little dove is blind. So it happens
105 Life, XXI | that would be to lose a little for the chance of gaining
106 Life, XXI | well enough, O Lord, how little I can do; but now, having
107 Life, XXI | those words by deeds. The little progress of the former,
108 Life, XXI | these raptures, that but little remains for the soul to
109 Life, XXI | of perfection, within a little while they see it much more
110 Life, XXII | read these books, where, by little and little, I thought I
111 Life, XXII | books, where, by little and little, I thought I might understand
112 Life, XXII | should have learned but little from books; for I understood
113 Life, XXII | consideration is this: there is a little absence of humility—so
114 Life, XXII | begun to describe it—is a little failure in humility, in
115 Life, XXII | another occasion.315 This little mote of want of humility,
116 Life, XXII | and that we may be those little asses who drive the windlass
117 Life, XXII | discovers Himself without these little efforts of ours! We may
118 Life, XXII | short time, and with very little labour. May His Majesty
119 Life, XXII | partake: they who eat a little retain the savour of it
120 Life, XXIII | thereby.~3. But if I was a little distracted, I began to be
121 Life, XXIII | Lord, Satan could do me little harm; on the contrary, he
122 Life, XXIII | no one of it. This was of little use, after all; for when
123 Life, XXIV | stir. Afterwards, I saw how little that was to the purpose;
124 Life, XXV | much experience will run little or no risk, I think; but
125 Life, XXV(362) | doubtfully; and as she had but little time for writing, she could
126 Life, XXV | and calm refreshing. Those little, fervid bursts of tears,
127 Life, XXV | varies therefrom ever so little, I am incomparably more
128 Life, XXV | seemed to me that I had very little humility, especially as
129 Life, XXV | They who love Thee, oh, how little they have to suffer! oh,
130 Life, XXV | peace: I feared them so little, that the terrors, which
131 Life, XXVI | all, for my will was but little subdued. Our Lord said to
132 Life, XXVI | so many ways, that I had little or no need whatever of books.
133 Life, XXVII | for us women, who know so little: learned men can explain
134 Life, XXVII | nothing of the kind: even that little, which is nothing more than
135 Life, XXVII | we can say is exceedingly little, when we consider what Thou
136 Life, XXVII | forthwith that there is but little edification given when people
137 Life, XXVIII | clearly to be the Lord of that little dwelling-place, that the
138 Life, XXVIII | suggested to me. But all was to little purpose; for as there were
139 Life, XXVIII | have pleased His Majesty a little herein; for I am sure that
140 Life, XXIX | imagine His great beauty? No little time is necessary, if our
141 Life, XXIX | power; but my power was little or nothing in the matter;
142 Life, XXIX | prayer is like the sobbing of little children, who seem on the
143 Life, XXIX | they seem to admit of a little mitigation—at least, the
144 Life, XXIX | the pain may pass away a little, by praying God to relieve
145 Life, XXIX | point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me
146 Life, XXX | saw that I was able to do little or nothing towards avoiding
147 Life, XXX | resistance; but I was so little able, that I was now and
148 Life, XXX | is the author of certain little books, in Spanish, on prayer,
149 Life, XXX | struck me that I had very little humility, when I could think
150 Life, XXX | soul seems to me like a little ass, which feeds and thrives,
151 Life, XXX | grants them. It is like those little wells I have seen flowing,
152 Life, XXX | it had even when I was a little child, though I did not
153 Life, XXX | said before,461 I have so little to spend, and perhaps, after
154 Life, XXXI | beside me a most frightful little negro, gnashing his teeth
155 Life, XXXI | so often, and I am now so little afraid of them,—because
156 Life, XXXI | fact is, I know now how little power the evil spirits have,
157 Life, XXXI | scruples.~18. All these little fears and distresses, and
158 Life, XXXI | In truth, there was no little ground for fear, and that
159 Life, XXXI | let them give heed to the little ant, who speaks because
160 Life, XXXI | the work. I speak of the little nothings and trifles which
161 Life, XXXI | they might not know how little I knew. It suggested itself
162 Life, XXXI | God has opened my eyes a little, even when I know a thing,
163 Life, XXXI | this gave me pain,—by little and little, doing such actions,
164 Life, XXXI | me pain,—by little and little, doing such actions, and
165 Life, XXXI | out; and then I was not a little ashamed, because my virtue
166 Life, XXXII | who was to do it, had very little or no means available for
167 Life, XXXII | was not certain, and too little, while the opposition was
168 Life, XXXIII | and able to do so very little. We agreed that it should
169 Life, XXXIII | could: she could do but little, and that was almost nothing.
170 Life, XXXIII | to do. There was another little house close to the one we
171 Life, XXXIII | even the whole earth is too little for it! how often have I
172 Life, XXXIII | complain. I went to the little house, arranged the divisions
173 Life, XXXIII | is of more importance, by little and little she so perfectly
174 Life, XXXIII | importance, by little and little she so perfectly fulfilled
175 Life, XXXIV | as I was; that rank is of little worth, and the higher it
176 Life, XXXIV | servants, how slight is that little trust that may be put in
177 Life, XXXIV | he will do himself but little good, and still less to
178 Life, XXXIV | of prayer, when I had so little myself that I could speak
179 Life, XXXIV | to her, for it ./. was little more than a week since she
180 Life, XXXV | the establishment of this little cell of God,—for such
181 Life, XXXV(525) | child his life again. The little boy soon after ran up to
182 Life, XXXVI(533)| monastery; "for I see it is the little hospice of Bethlehem" (De
183 Life, XXXVI | learn from experience how little we ought to make either
184 Life, XXXVI | it was now.~He gave me a little light, so that I might see
185 Life, XXXVI | wished to rest myself a little after our dinner; for during
186 Life, XXXVI | done, she was softened a little. They all sent for the Provincial,
187 Life, XXXVI | propositions, which obtained us a little respite. But that was not
188 Life, XXXVII | putting before them how little I was attached to anybody,
189 Life, XXXVII | heaps up fuel, and does the little it can do of itself, it
190 Life, XXXVII | learn by experience how little it can do in its own strength.~
191 Life, XXXVIII | being in my oratory. These little precautions are of no use
192 Life, XXXVIII | of it." Ah, my Lord, how little good my words will do them,
193 Life, XXXVIII | not all at once, but by little and little, the abundance
194 Life, XXXVIII | once, but by little and little, the abundance of Thy riches!
195 Life, XXXVIII | has spent her life with so little fear of God, when she draws
196 Life, XXXVIII | my whole life,—it was little enough,—and prayed our
197 Life, XXXIX | and if I try, I do so with little earnestness, force, and
198 Life, XXXIX | much and to whom I give so little! For what is he worth, O
199 Life, XXXIX | hearts, and gives them a little light and love. I speak
200 Life, XXXIX | try to console myself a little with the little I do, seeing
201 Life, XXXIX | myself a little with the little I do, seeing that I do not
202 Life, XXXIX | imperfections, now and then but little courage, very frequently
203 Life, XXXIX | boldness, for I, who have very little humility, have never ventured
204 Life, XXXIX | been enough to sustain the little virtue I have in desiring
205 Life, XL | the soul, and bring but little fruit.~11. I should like
206 Life, XL | sometimes distressed to see how little I do in His service, and
207 Life, XL | would leave me to suffer a little, yet He would console ./.
208 Life, XL | because I seem to have come a little nearer to the vision of
209 Life, XL | great height, and care very little what people say or know
210 Life, XL | you, my father! I have so little time,618 and therefore my
211 Rel, I(622) | hand of our Lord, and how little worth she is herself.~"18.
212 Rel, I | of reading. I read very little, for when I take up a book
213 Rel, I | worse, seeing that I make so little progress after receiving
214 Rel, I | or a single vision, or a little self-recollection, lasting
215 Rel, II | it is just. I feel it so little that I see nothing in it
216 Rel, II | hear it, it creates in me a little resistance, but it neither
217 Rel, II | consolation; however, I do but little, because of my great weakness.~
218 Rel, II | the world to gain ever so little more merit—I mean, by
219 Rel, IV | mouth, when I had come a little to myself, I verily believed
220 Rel, IV | for if I do not take it a little earlier, it occasions great
221 Rel, V | it that distresses thee, little sinner? Am I not thy God?
222 Rel, VI | not extend to things of little importance,—as if I were
223 Rel, VI | all I could do, and very little it was in comparison with
224 Rel, VII | thought that it mattered little if she had to suffer in
225 Rel, VII | of it, and write another little book688 for her daughters,
226 Rel, VII | deceived, because he had so little confidence in her. This
227 Rel, VII | harshly of her than others, by little and little he spoke more
228 Rel, VII | than others, by little and little he spoke more kindly of
229 Rel, VIII | cannot be hindered.~12. This little bird of the spirit seems
230 Rel, IX | great pain for me, it was to little purpose, for the fear never
231 Rel, IX | I will have thee see how little thou canst do without Me."
232 Rel, IX | these words: "O woman of little faith, be quiet; everything
233 Rel, IX | Now, in reading again this little paper, I think this must
234 Rel, X | The third, to converse little with people in the world,
235 Rel, XI | thinks it would be very little if, till the end of the
236 Rel, XI | likings and dislikings have so little power to take from me the
237 Ind | life, xi. 23; to be made little of, xiii. 9.~Heaven, Queen