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1 Int | made her first supernatural experience in prayer. She was twenty
2 Int | this time the Saint had an experience which should have proved
3 Pref | still, as to that special experience of the loving, and more
4 Pref | themselves to prayer. The great experience of this religious, her discretion
5 Pref | men, through their want of experience, have not always attained
6 Pref | herein I have had great experience of her truthfulness, her
7 Pref | only to men of learning, experience, and Christian discretion.
8 Life, I | to me; for I have by ./. experience found the royal Virgin help
9 Life, II | if I did not know it by experience,—especially when we are
10 Life, IV | whatever; for I know now, by experience in many things, that if
11 Life, IV | resulting. I know this by experience, as I have just said, in
12 Life, V | could wish it was. I know by experience that it is better, if the
13 Life, VI | glorious Saint, I know by experience, to help us in all: and
14 Life, VI | and they too know this by experience; and there are many who
15 Life, VI | devout to him,127 having had experience of this truth.~10. I used
16 Life, VI | Saint; for I know by long experience what blessings he can obtain
17 Life, VI | himself—when he will see by experience the great good ./. that
18 Life, VI | in some measure tested by experience, in many ways, during that
19 Life, VII | of, if I had not known by experience the great importance of
20 Life, VII | who in this matter has had experience, will lose nothing. Of myself
21 Life, VIII | of that which I know by experience; and so I say, let him never
22 Life, X | this. I speak from my own experience, as I have been commanded;
23 Life, X | who the person is whose experience it describes, nor who wrote
24 Life, X | consent. I will recount my experience, in order that, if it be
25 Life, X | for those who are without experience. I shall speak of certain
26 Life, X | our Lord has taught me by experience. I have also discussed the
27 Life, X | Majesty granted me that experience which others attain to in
28 Life, XI | that He will have us by experience know our wretchedness before
29 Life, XI | say so because I know by experience, that the soul which, begins
30 Life, XI | a fault here; I have had experience of it, and know it to be
31 Life, XI | indisposition—I have had very great experience in the matter, and I know
32 Life, XI | shall advise. Altogether, experience is a great matter, and it
33 Life, XII | understand me who has had any experience; and I know not how to explain
34 Life, XII | read this, by giving them experience; and then however slight
35 Life, XII | then however slight that experience may be, they will immediately
36 Life, XIII | in this, for I know it by experience. As a warning to others,
37 Life, XIII | and that which we learn by experience.~19. Going back, then, to
38 Life, XIII | ought to be a person of experience; for if he be not, he will
39 Life, XIII | who directed them had no experience: that made me sorry for
40 Life, XIII | understanding—and a man of experience. If, in addition to this,
41 Life, XIII | though some of them have no experience, they do not dislike spirituality,
42 Life, XIII | this without having had experience of it; and I have met with
43 Life, XIII(198) | Prudence, experience, and learning; see § 24.~
44 Life, XIV | and it must have so much experience for the understanding thereof,
45 Life, XV | great results. A person of experience, however, cannot possibly
46 Life, XV | I have seen it in my own experience,—but I know nothing of
47 Life, XV | because—setting aside the experience I have had, and by which
48 Life, XVIII | who may not have had any experience of the latter, it must seem
49 Life, XVIII | him who has not had that experience, it must appear folly. And,
50 Life, XVIII | that I do not know by great experience: and so, when I began to
51 Life, XVIII | understanding.251~19. He who has had experience of this will understand
52 Life, XIX | I had not found it so by experience, I could not have believed
53 Life, XIX | strong, and itself has no experience wherewith to discern the
54 Life, XX | who has not previously had experience of it. It is a communication
55 Life, XX | understanding it. I know it by experience.~25. You, my father, will
56 Life, XX | their directors have had no experience in the matter, they will
57 Life, XX | has admitted you to the experience of it: yet, because that
58 Life, XX | of it: yet, because that experience is not very great, it may
59 Life, XX | myself, and I know it by experience, that the soul in rapture
60 Life, XX | believe this who has not had experience of it, and so they do not
61 Life, XXI | matter which a person of any experience can see into most clearly.~
62 Life, XXI | No one, who has not had experience of it, will ever be able
63 Life, XXII | Majesty made me learn by experience: neither did I know what
64 Life, XXII | what I say is the result of experience; for my soul was in a very
65 Life, XXII | I know this by repeated experience: our Lord has told it me.
66 Life, XXII | sinful man." I know this by experience: it was thus that God directed
67 Life, XXII | meet with some one of more experience and better knowledge than
68 Life, XXII | before.330 So, throughout, experience and discretion are necessary.
69 Life, XXIII | believe it who has not had experience of it; but, as I hope in
70 Life, XXIV | great progress himself; for experience is very important in these
71 Life, XXV | us. I know this by much experience; for my resistance lasted
72 Life, XXV | though he who has had much experience will run little or no risk,
73 Life, XXV | no risk, I think; but the experience must be great. I should
74 Life, XXV | thought it possible. I know by experience in many ways, when these
75 Life, XXV | it is; and he who has any experience of it will see that what
76 Life, XXV | far as I can see, and by experience understand, that which purports
77 Life, XXV | fail me not; for I know by experience now the blessedness of that
78 Life, XXVI | understand me who has had experience herein, and that he will
79 Life, XXVI | him who has had no such experience, I should not be surprised
80 Life, XXVII | far will it go! I know by experience that what I am saying is
81 Life, XXVIII | our own. I know this by experience well, as I shall show you.~
82 Life, XXVIII | therefore relate what my experience has shown me; but how our
83 Life, XXVIII | harm to anyone who has had experience of these things; for it
84 Life, XXVIII | this way of the spirit by experience. If our Lord had not dealt
85 Life, XXIX | His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I
86 Life, XXX | me, by reason of his own experience. That was all I required;
87 Life, XXX | my state should have had experience of it himself.~5. The light
88 Life, XXX | I have now had so much experience, that I know this was his
89 Life, XXX | night and dark, by his past experience of it, where he may stumble,
90 Life, XXX | nothing of its own former experience. Vocal prayer or solitude
91 Life, XXX | possesses, unless he knows by experience what it is to be powerless
92 Life, XXXI | was.~4. I know by frequent experience that there is nothing which
93 Life, XXXI | victory at last. And as my experience here is large, I will say,
94 Life, XXXIII | now through that spiritual experience he had gained of supernatural
95 Life, XXXIV | in a short time had great experience in spiritual things: that
96 Life, XXXIV | no way attain to but by experience; and thus many are in error,
97 Life, XXXIV | repeat it, if he have no experience, if he have not a most profound
98 Life, XXXIV | that of which he has no experience himself he seeks to find
99 Life, XXXV | knew what it was by long experience,—I made up my mind to
100 Life, XXXVI | one of us would learn from experience how little we ought to make
101 Life, XXXVI(559)| religious mitigations which long experience had introduced, were too
102 Life, XXXVI | and I have seen in my own experience, that to preserve our spirit,
103 Life, XXXVII | something else, and learn by experience how little it can do in
104 Life, XXXIX | love and courage,—without experience none can comprehend them—
105 Life, XXXIX | any one what has not had experience of it. I felt that everything
106 Life, XL | come of it. I know this by experience, as well as the necessity
107 Life, XL | our health can bear.~12. Experience is necessary throughout,
108 Life, XL | I believe, who know by experience so many things, and without
109 Life, XL | many things, and without experience it is useless to treat a
110 Life, XL | that he should be a man of experience herein. There are many more
111 Rel, I(622) | profited by them she knows by experience, and she knows it, too,
112 Rel, I | have. And this I have had experience of very often—at least
113 Rel, I | any one possessed of any experience. Nevertheless, I say that,
114 Rel, II | offer to God, as I learn by experience that my soul gains greatly
115 Rel, II | break down. And so I know by experience that the only way not to
116 Rel, VII(687) | Do you, then, commit your experience to writing, in all simplicity
117 Rel, VIII | of nothing I have not had experience of at times, and, indeed,
118 Rel, VIII | understand it who has not had experience of it,—I mean, how far
119 Rel, XI | seem clearly to know by experience what is recorded by St.
120 Ind | with, Boll. 211, xxix. 4.~Experience, more valuable than books,