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1 Int, Arg | how she began to practise greater perfection. This is profitable
2 Pref | others. These points, or the greater number of them, I have marked
3 Pref | good intention; and the greater the reason for trying spirits
4 Ann | dead80.~1560. ~The vow of greater perfection. St. Peter of
5 Life, I | my advantage, but for Thy greater honour—that this habitation,
6 Life, II | fear of Him, though I had a greater fear of disgrace. This ./.
7 Life, III | of my stay there, I had a greater inclination to be a nun,
8 Life, III | living as a nun cannot be greater than those of purgatory,
9 Life, IV | should be afraid; and the greater the fear, if we do but succeed,
10 Life, IV | if we do but succeed, the greater the reward, and the sweetness
11 Life, IV | as within me, though the greater part of my time I spent
12 Life, IV | this condition must have greater purity of conscience than
13 Life, IV | has not that power is in greater danger, and ought to occupy
14 Life, V | this, I began to show him greater affection: my intention
15 Life, V | though it might have been of greater purity. There were also
16 Life, V | that all men must have a greater affection for those women
17 Life, VI | I could do so, it was a greater joy and satisfaction to
18 Life, VI | trouble, and out of others of greater importance, relating to
19 Life, VI | delivered me, and rendered me greater services than I knew how
20 Life, VI | directs it aright for my greater good.~12. If I were a person
21 Life, VII | salvation without incurring a greater risk than they would do
22 Life, VII | life there could not be a greater good than prayer; and by
23 Life, VII | praying, thinking it an act of greater humility to abstain. This—
24 Life, VII | sickness occurs, and with greater pain; for I have to bring
25 Life, VII | me that He might show me greater mercies.~29. O my God! if
26 Life, VII | that it has led to much greater gain! Now, if in their intercourse
27 Life, VII | for the purpose of having greater satisfaction in speaking
28 Life, VIII | whole world which requires greater courage than plotting treason
29 Life, VIII | before, and occasionally even greater, if our repentance deserve
30 Life, VIII | sustainest their bodily life in greater vigour, and makest their
31 Life, VIII | violence to myself, I found greater peace and joy than I sometimes
32 Life, VIII | omission of it be not a still greater harm, why, then, should
33 Life, VIII | troubles of this life in greater misery, and to shut the
34 Life, IX | speaking, I seem to have made greater progress; for I was now
35 Life, IX | keep their consciences in greater pureness.160~
36 Life, X | another in heaven, and much greater than between one spiritual
37 Life, X | gain it brings us. And what greater gain can we have than some
38 Life, X | same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and
39 Life, X | our love for a person is greater, the more distinctly we
40 Life, X | possession of other pearls of greater price, such as contempt
41 Life, X | must consider themselves greater debtors—under greater
42 Life, X | greater debtors—under greater obligations to serve Him:
43 Life, X | than enough,—would bestow greater riches than I could desire.~
44 Life, X | indeed, our Lord had given me greater abilities and a better memory,
45 Life, XI | perhaps expose ourselves to greater danger, in order that we
46 Life, XI | us, whether the gain be greater than the trouble, or how
47 Life, XI | raised in four months to a greater height than I have reached
48 Life, XI | Majesty—perhaps for our greater good—it is His will the
49 Life, XI | great, and require, I think, greater courage than many others
50 Life, XI | Lord, that is not for the greater good of that soul which
51 Life, XI | amusements of the world. The greater part of the work is done;
52 Life, XI | believe that all is for our greater good; let His Majesty guide
53 Life, XI | on these occasions, the greater the mischief, and the longer
54 Life, XI | gently, that it may make greater progress.~25. So, then,
55 Life, XIII | are many souls who make greater progress by meditation on
56 Life, XIII | the way of prayer have the greater need of learning; and the
57 Life, XIII | more spiritual they are the greater is that need. Let them not
58 Life, XIII | the more, because of my greater need of them. I have always
59 Life, XIV | fruition of that contentment in greater sweetness; but the faculties
60 Life, XIV | forth some good; and the greater my wickedness, the greater
61 Life, XIV | greater my wickedness, the greater the splendour of the great
62 Life, XIV | for my debt is much the greater, seeing that God has forgiven
63 Life, XV | those who have gone on to greater perfection would look upon
64 Life, XV | were to last for ever. The greater the perfection of these
65 Life, XV | perfection of these persons, the greater their joy, and the greater
66 Life, XV | greater their joy, and the greater also would that joy be if
67 Life, XV | these worldly goods were greater.~19. In these persons, thus
68 Life, XV | order to humble us for our greater good, and to keep us from
69 Life, XV | the more perfectly, the greater the graces. It fills us
70 Life, XV | solitude, in order to obtain a greater fruition of this good.~23.
71 Life, XV | 24. As I shall speak at greater length of the signs of a
72 Life, XVI | delight are incomparably greater than in the former state
73 Life, XVI | its joy; for its joy is greater than it can bear. It seems
74 Life, XVI | but, in order to have a greater fruition of that bliss which
75 Life, XVII | humility of the soul is much greater and deeper than it was before;
76 Life, XVII | itself that which gives it a greater satisfaction, greater joys
77 Life, XVII | a greater satisfaction, greater joys in God, longings for
78 Life, XVII | fear, and to walk with the greater courage in the way of our
79 Life, XVII | find itself there where the greater part of it is, and to see,
80 Life, XVIII | the soul is incomparably greater, and the power of showing
81 Life, XVIII | in order to leave them greater.~16. The truth is, it passes
82 Life, XIX | its vanity. The soul makes greater and higher progress than
83 Life, XIX | goodness of God, to make greater progress in His service.
84 Life, XIX | goodness of God, which is greater than ./. all the evil we
85 Life, XX(267) | soul in a rapture has a greater fruition of God, and that
86 Life, XX | the fruits of it are much greater, and its other operations
87 Life, XX | extreme loneliness; how much greater my comfort, when these persons
88 Life, XX | desire—brings with it greater pain; for the desire then
89 Life, XXI | truth is, that these are greater or less. I say less, because
90 Life, XXI | some time. Meanwhile, the greater the growth of love and humility
91 Life, XXI | of that soul may not be greater than mine were:~I cannot
92 Life, XXI | whereby it may derive much greater profit.~15. Those souls
93 Life, XXII | prayer, and it does much greater harm; for these blessings
94 Life, XXIII | I see it was all for my greater good, in order that I might
95 Life, XXIII | may turn, fears a still greater danger, and is well-nigh
96 Life, XXIV | was inclined to practise greater penance, having been negligent
97 Life, XXIV | putting me in the way of greater perfection. He used to say
98 Life, XXIV(355)| of the year 1557, and the greater part, perhaps, of 1558;
99 Life, XXV | permits them to do so, for the greater good of His servants, whom
100 Life, XXVI | even if I had to endure greater trials for His service,
101 Life, XXVII | great glory: and now he is a greater comfort to me, I do believe,
102 Life, XXVIII | increase my devotion; and the greater the difficulty the greater
103 Life, XXVIII | greater the difficulty the greater the increase.~11. I will
104 Life, XXIX | vision, in order to have a greater fruition of it all.~3. Accordingly,
105 Life, XXIX | in the world which gives greater delight. As I have just
106 Life, XXIX | pain, which was to me a greater bliss than all created things
107 Life, XXIX | different from it, and of greater worth. On the other hand,
108 Life, XXX | have any doubts, for my greater security, I was to make
109 Life, XXX | myself as bound to render greater service.~12. This invention
110 Life, XXX | prayer or solitude is only a greater affliction, because the
111 Life, XXX | sake, it will be all the greater gain: I, however, do not
112 Life, XXXI | I mean, that it requires greater courage in one not yet perfect
113 Life, XXXI | advanced than themselves, greater fruits of virtue given them
114 Life, XXXI | Majesty helps us on towards greater things; and so it happened
115 Life, XXXIII | better if I had procured greater resources for it than for
116 Life, XXXIII | very painful. This was a greater affliction to me than all
117 Life, XXXIII | greatest delight and joy, greater than I had ever had before,
118 Life, XXXIV | and during Matins, or the greater part of them, was lost in
119 Life, XXXIV | and the more I saw, the greater my contempt,—that I never
120 Life, XXXIV | and the higher it is, the greater the anxiety and trouble
121 Life, XXXIV | for now another Master, greater than he, is directing these
122 Life, XXXIV | understood of him. But there were greater things made known of him
123 Life, XXXIV | is lost himself; and what greater loss, what greater blindness,
124 Life, XXXIV | what greater loss, what greater blindness, what greater
125 Life, XXXIV | greater blindness, what greater calamity, can there be than
126 Life, XXXV | of our Lord was so much greater than mine, that I was ashamed
127 Life, XXXV | opportunity of living in greater perfection, neglect it?
128 Life, XXXV | knew that it was an act of greater perfection, and for the
129 Life, XXXV | found all I~needed. But the greater the consolations I lost
130 Life, XXXV | for our Lord's sake, the greater was my joy in losing them.
131 Life, XXXV | this life is to live in greater peace even here below. To
132 Life, XXXVI | that it would be for the greater honour of our Lord to abandon
133 Life, XXXVII | nor would it ask for, a greater joy. Still, since our Lord
134 Life, XXXVII | awe. But I am filled with greater awe, O my Lord, when I consider
135 Life, XXXVII | of Thy Majesty, we have a greater dread of offending Thee,
136 Life, XXXVIII | our Lord showed me still greater secrets. The soul, even
137 Life, XXXVIII | life, must die with the greater sweetness.~8. It seems to
138 Life, XXXVIII | brightness of the wings were far greater. I understood by this that
139 Life, XXXVIII | and we feel that we make greater progress in the knowledge
140 Life, XXXVIII | Humanity in exceeding glory, greater than I had ever seen It
141 Life, XXXVIII | how the priests are under greater obligations to be holy than
142 Life, XXXIX | sins and led others on to greater perfection. But as to the
143 Life, XXXIX | for one person may make greater progress in six months than
144 Life, XXXIX | in a short time have made greater progress than we have made,
145 Life, XXXIX | confessor, that it requires greater courage to receive these
146 Life, XXXIX | me long to endure still greater ./. trials: and I had a
147 Life, XL | used to say that women made greater progress in this way than
148 Rel, II | more earnest desires, a greater love of solitude, a much
149 Rel, II | love of solitude, a much greater detachment, as I said, with
150 Rel, II | worthless, for I have received greater consolation than I have
151 Rel, II | far as I can see, a much greater liberty of late. Hitherto
152 Rel, II | grievous they were, the greater the courage, without weariness
153 Rel, II | courage seems to me much greater. I think I could go forth
154 Rel, III | consists not in striving after greater joy in Me, but in doing
155 Rel, III | conscious of great progress, and greater shame and distress to see
156 Rel, III | Apostles: "The servant is not greater than his Lord."662~
157 Rel, V | more I believe it, and the greater the devotion it excites
158 Rel, VI | obedience, it might be made in greater ./. perfection, and I had
159 Rel, VII | conference with him for her greater security, and told him everything.
160 Rel, VII | bare her secrets with the greater joy; though also it gave
161 Rel, VII | considers to be for the greater honour of our Lord, that
162 Rel, VII | love and the desire become greater of serving our Lord, who
163 Rel, IX | to the soul incomparably greater than any it might have made
164 Rel, XI | desires I had; they seem to be greater. All this is done that I
165 Rel, XI | are great, I have one much greater to see the will of God accomplished
166 Ind | 21; said that women make greater progress than men, xl. 12.~
167 Ind | of, xxiii. 14, 15; make greater progress than men, xl. 12.~