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1 Int | person commending a matter to God with great earnestness,
2 Int | her book was like praising God."3~A notable feature in
3 Int | manner of prayer whereby God had led her, I can say that
4 Int | from it the great mercy God had shown her, a great sinner
5 Int | himself more perfectly to God, and this she accomplished
6 Int | desire to understand—how God did this, nor how it could
7 Int | that they did come from God, and that so far from imperilling
8 Int | you who have been led by God to this degree of contemplation (
9 Int | soul feels there, and how God satiates her and makes her
10 Int | pertaining to the service of God; that book, therefore, will
11 Int | neighbour and the glory of God." One of these two men was
12 Int, Arg | In which she tells how God40 began to dispose this
13 Int, Arg | intentions, and in what manner God began to give her some light
14 Int, Arg | with the assistance of God, she compelled herself to
15 Int, Arg | suffered and the patience God gave her to bear them, and
16 Int, Arg | the great debt she owes God for giving her conformity
17 Int, Arg | whereby she lost the graces God had granted her, and the
18 Int, Arg(40) | everywhere translated by "God" in distinction to "Nuestro
19 Int, Arg | Chapter IX.—By what means God began to rouse her soul
20 Int, Arg | begins to explain the graces God gave her in prayer, and
21 Int, Arg | importance of understanding God's mercies towards us. She
22 Int, Arg | details about the graces God has shown her.~Chapter XI.
23 Int, Arg | it is that we do not love God perfectly in a short time.
24 Int, Arg | how far, with the grace of God, we can proceed by ourselves,
25 Int, Arg | extraordinary experiences before God lifts up the soul.~Chapter
26 Int, Arg | degree of prayer in which God already gives the soul special
27 Int, Arg | of such great graces of God. This is calculated to greatly
28 Int, Arg | spirit to the praise of God, and contains advice for
29 Int, Arg | explain41 in what high dignity God holds a soul that has attained
30 Int, Arg | through the goodness of God42.~Chapter XIX.—She continues
31 Int, Arg | derives from being, through God's goodness, led so far.
32 Int, Arg | and speaks of the light God gives concerning the deceits (
33 Int, Arg | high things but to wait for God to lift it up. How the Sacred
34 Int, Arg | little she was able to resist God's graces, and how His Majesty
35 Int, Arg | manner in which Locutions of God are perceived by the soul
36 Int, Arg | Of another way in which God teaches a soul, and, without
37 Int, Arg | a great grace with which God favoured her. This chapter
38 Int, Arg | treats of the great favours God showed her, and how He appeared
39 Int, Arg | signs whether it is from God. This chapter is most profitable
40 Int, Arg | tells of some great mercies God showed her, and what His
41 Int, Arg | history of her life, and how God sent her a remedy for all
42 Int, Arg | narrates how it pleased God to put her in spirit in
43 Int, Arg | troubles it brought her and how God consoled her in all this.~
44 Int, Arg | there, and the great grace God bestowed upon her in determining
45 Int, Arg | which she passed, and how God led her forth victorious
46 Int, Arg | effects which remained when God granted her some favour;
47 Int, Arg | treats of some great mercies God showed her, even making
48 Int, Arg | great graces granted her by God; how He promised to hear
49 Int, Arg | subject of great mercies God has shown her. From some
50 Int, Arg | May it be for the glory of God. Amen.~
51 Pref | brought them up in the fear of God.46 The Saint's own account
52 Pref | nuns, and all the while God was calling her to Himself.
53 Pref | the one hand, the voice of God calling her; on the other,
54 Pref | persuaded to give himself to God in religion. The brother
55 Pref | supernatural visitations of God might after all be nothing
56 Pref | and how by the grace of God he had overcome them.~But
57 Pref | of the great graces which God bestowed upon her, Don Francis
58 Pref | hoping and trusting that God would not suffer her to
59 Pref | was sound and the work of God. Under his direction she
60 Pref | her soul was the work of God, against those who thought
61 Pref | heavy burden laid on her by God, a constant fear of delusion,
62 Pref | the special ways by which God leads some souls are not
63 Pref | are true. What you say of God's way of teaching the soul,
64 Pref | unadvisedly, neither will God; so, considering this, and
65 Pref | mentioned in the book came from God.~"5. Imaginary or bodily
66 Pref | matters, together with hope in God, Who will not ./. let a
67 Pref | creatures. It is written, God is love, and if He is love,
68 Pref | than loving, converse of God with whom He will, if not
69 Pref | scandalized at hearing of what God in His love does for His
70 Pref | they cannot think that God will do for others what
71 Pref | a sign of its being from God, seeing that He is wonderful
72 Pref | profit. They move you to love God, and to despise yourself,
73 Pref | even if they do come from God, Satan may mix with them
74 Pref | they are known to be from God, men must not rest much
75 Pref | but in a humble love of God and our neighbour; everything
76 Pref | certainty that they come from God, Whose arm is not shortened
77 Pref, 0(64) | that these things came from God, for she was instantly afraid
78 Pref | them that they come from God, and to look on them as
79 Pref | named; and as the Church of God is, and is to be, always
80 Pref | examined who, in the Church of God, manifest any particular
81 Pref | the fire of the Spirit of God should be quenched in the
82 Pref | appearance of goodness. God complained of old, by the
83 Pref | courage and lose the fear of God, because they consider the
84 Pref | imploring the compassion of God, if we would not be their
85 Pref | Besides, there are souls whom God, in a way, constrains to
86 Pref | I firmly believe that if God for a time bears with the
87 Pref | opinion of the servants of God is most just, but let us
88 Pref | proof of her real love of God than these visions and revelations.
89 Pref | suspect them to be the work of God, as they have been in others
90 Pref | once, perhaps, the work of God, may be changed into something
91 Pref | Jerome of the Mother of God was with her; and heard
92 Pref | Jerome of the Mother of God had ordered to be made.
93 Pref | in the year of our Lord God 1642.~'Aut mori aut pati:~
94 Life, Pro | Saints who were converted to God, I have never found one
95 Life, Pro(84) | book "Of the compassions of God"—Y ansi intitule ese libro
96 Life, I | who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me
97 Life, I | All, by the mercy of God, resembled their parents
98 Life, I | before I began to offend God, I think he had some reason,
99 Life, I | hindered me in the service of God.~4. One of my brothers was
100 Life, I | the Saints for the love of God, it struck me that the vision
101 Life, I | struck me that the vision of God was very cheaply purchased;
102 Life, I | our way for the love of God, that we might be there
103 Life, I | to death for the sake of God, my brother and I set about
104 Life, I | devotion when I consider how God gave me in my early youth
105 Life, II | wished any one to offend God for me. This fastidiousness
106 Life, II | very cautious; and would to God he had been cautious ./.
107 Life, II(93) | Gratian of the Mother of God (No. 323, Letter 28, vol.
108 Life, II(93) | begs him, for the love of God, to see that the Fathers
109 Life, II | that I turned away from God in mortal sin, or lost the
110 Life, II | anything against the honour of God, as I had it by nature not
111 Life, II | to teach me the fear of God, my soul would have grown
112 Life, II | Afterwards, when the fear of God had utterly departed from
113 Life, II | honourable nor pleasing unto God.~7. In the beginning, these
114 Life, II | my father and brothers. God delivered me out of it all,
115 Life, II | Who seeth all things. O my God, what evil is done in the
116 Life, II | and, though I offended God, I never ceased to have
117 Life, II | recognized the great mercy of God to those whom He places
118 Life, II | that I was not offending God. One of the nuns97 slept
119 Life, III | well she used to speak of God! for she was a person of
120 Life, III | nuns to pray for me, that God would place me in that state
121 Life, III | not to be a nun, and that God would not be pleased I should
122 Life, III | him to have the vision of God. He would have me stay with
123 Life, III | ordinary conversation was about God and the vanity of the world.
124 Life, III | extremely indiscreet. O my God, in how many ways did His
125 Life, III | my heart by the words of God both heard and read, and
126 Life, IV | I thought I should serve God better in it, or to any
127 Life, IV | for, as I had no love of God to destroy my love of father
128 Life, IV | failed me to this day; and God converted the aridity of
129 Life, IV | When the act is done for God only, it is His will before
130 Life, IV | detached for the love of God only, that is no reason
131 Life, IV | are so many servants of God, from whom I might learn
132 Life, IV | better. It seems to me, O my God, that I did nothing but
133 Life, IV | do not think I offended God in it much. And as my illness
134 Life, IV | I ran of sinning against God.~9. From the very beginning,
135 Life, IV | From the very beginning, God was most gracious unto me.
136 Life, IV | mortal sin—and would to God I had always been so!—
137 Life, IV | was all my comfort; for God never endowed me with the
138 Life, IV | world is, on what he owes to God, on the great sufferings
139 Life, IV | the great sufferings of God for him, his own scanty
140 Life, IV | return, and on the reward God reserves for those who love
141 Life, IV | believe that, by the grace of God, it would have been so,
142 Life, IV | those days in which I served God, they were very profitable
143 Life, IV | of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced
144 Life, V | patience very much; I prayed to God that He would give me a
145 Life, V | I believe, that love of God which I think I had after ./.
146 Life, V | began to trouble my soul; God, however, brought forth
147 Life, V | clearly that in the eyes of God I was without excuse, that
148 Life, V | from them. I believe that God, by reason of my sins, allowed
149 Life, V | whatever to do anything whereby God might be seriously offended.
150 Life, V | the knowledge and fear of God which ./. filled my soul,
151 Life, V | with others was to speak of God; and, as I was so young,
152 Life, V | to go against the law of God. It is a madness common
153 Life, V | see it. We are indebted to God for all the good that men
154 Life, V | have lost all shame before God, are in nothing whatever
155 Life, V | to him most frequently of God; and this must have done
156 Life, V | was never weary of giving God thanks for the light He
157 Life, V | diligent in the service of God; and as for that great affection
158 Life, V | in the near presence of God. As I said before,120 I
159 Life, V | conforming my will to the will of God. All my conversation was
160 Life, V | my conversation was with God. I had continually these
161 Life, V | prayers were made to God: blessed be He Who heard
162 Life, V | only for having offended God, which might have sufficed
163 Life, V | myself to have offended God. This grace, among others,
164 Life, V | pray him, for the love of God, not to suppress one of
165 Life, V | forth the magnificence of God, as well as His long-suffering
166 Life, VI | about three years. I praised God when I began to crawl on
167 Life, VI | resigned to the will of God, even if He left me in this
168 Life, VI | frequently, spoke much about God, and in such a way as to
169 Life, VI | the grace of prayer which God had wrought in me; it made
170 Life, VI | strict account to give unto God for the bad example I gave
171 Life, VI | to discourse and speak of God; for if I found any one
172 Life, VI | penitent for having offended God; and I remember that very
173 Life, VI | felt for having offended God, dreading it as a great
174 Life, VI | these tokens of the fear of God came to me through prayer;
175 Life, VI | that is mortal sin.~8. O my God! I wished for health, that
176 Life, VI | I thought I might serve God much better if I were well.
177 Life, VI | the great favours which God hath given me through this
178 Life, VI | he can obtain for us from God. I have never known any
179 Life, VI | But I ask, for the love of God, that he who does not believe
180 Life, VII | ashamed to draw near unto God in an act of such special
181 Life, VII | prayer nor commune with God so much; for I deserved
182 Life, VII | ostentation—glory be to God!—I do not remember that
183 Life, VII | way. Perhaps, however, if God had permitted Satan to tempt
184 Life, VII | prayer, read much, spoke of God, that I liked to have His
185 Life, VII | state are so ill-understood. God grant they may not count
186 Life, VII | extremely good inclinations, and God grant that these inclinations
187 Life, VII | of that friendship with God which they desire to have,
188 Life, VII | that the vision was from God, and ./. not an imagination;
189 Life, VII | it. Oh, the greatness of God! with what care and tenderness
190 Life, VII | old, a great servant of God, and a strict observer of
191 Life, VII | and the great goodness of God might be understood, and
192 Life, VII | to speak of the things of God.~17. And now that I had
193 Life, VII | used to pray, if I offended God one day, on the following
194 Life, VII | think that I used to pray to God as before. So I told him
195 Life, VII | that others should serve God. I thought, now that I did
196 Life, VII | charged us to recommend him to God, and to pray for mercy for
197 Life, VII | him, how he bade us serve God always, and consider how
198 Life, VII | a very good man, fearing God, did me a very great service;
199 Life, VII | my faults. On one side, God was calling me; on the other,
200 Life, VII | world. All the things of God gave me great pleasure;
201 Life, VII | greater mercies.~29. O my God! if I might, I would speak
202 Life, VII | the occasions from which God delivered me, and how I
203 Life, VII | I was not ashamed before God.~33. For this reason, I
204 Life, VII | beginning to love and serve God in earnest to confide to
205 Life, VII | if that friendship with God which he desires be real,
206 Life, VII | wish to love and please God should hide the fact, while
207 Life, VII | offences committed against God are thus published abroad.~
208 Life, VII | relate to the service of God are so feebly managed, that
209 Life, VII | himself up to the service of God, there are so many to find
210 Life, VII | himself, but to believe that God will help him in his relations
211 Life, VII | on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was
212 Life, VIII | time I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning
213 Life, VIII | because I had no sweetness in God, and no pleasure in the
214 Life, VIII | remembrance of what I owed to God made ./. me sad; and when
215 Life, VIII | and when I was praying to God, my worldly affections disturbed
216 Life, VIII | always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that
217 Life, VIII | even once recollecting that God sees them.~3. It is true,
218 Life, VIII | was ill, I was well with God. I contrived that those
219 Life, VIII | my attempts to reconcile God and the world. As to the
220 Life, VIII | least, I think so—serving God, and aware of the vanity
221 Life, VIII | just said,149 the mercy of God and my ingratitude, on the
222 Life, VIII | great is the good which God works in a soul when He
223 Life, VIII | mental prayer—glory be to God for it; and, if they had
224 Life, VIII | the perfect receive from God, yet he will by little and
225 Life, VIII | I hope in the mercy of God for him, seeing that no
226 Life, VIII | terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in
227 Life, VIII | infinite goodness of my God! I seem to see Thee and
228 Life, VIII | thinking of my offences against God, of the great debt I owe
229 Life, VIII | slight, and it is known that God has given me a courage beyond
230 Life, VIII | to those who do not serve God, but rather offend Him,
231 Life, VIII | serve and desire to serve God? Certainly I cannot comprehend
232 Life, VIII | the door in the face of God, so that He shall give them
233 Life, VIII | them, because they serve God at their own cost; for of
234 Life, VIII | for of those who pray, God Himself defrays the charges,
235 Life, VIII | end, when, by the grace of God, I was withdrawing more
236 Life, VIII | had from any one except God, and for the wide door that
237 Life, VIII | refreshment. To speak of God, or to hear Him spoken of,
238 Life, VIII | and place it wholly in God. I wished to live, but I
239 Life, IX | placing all my confidence in God. It seems to me that I said
240 Life, IX | I recommended myself to God, that I might sleep in peace,
241 Life, IX | often of myself.~9. O my God, I amazed at the hardness
242 Life, IX | give myself entirely to God. When I began to read the
243 Life, IX | affliction and distress. O my God, what a soul has to suffer
244 Life, IX | live in torments so great: God be praised Who gave me life,
245 Life, IX | wherein the true love of God consists. I do not think
246 Life, IX | that is, not to offend God, and to be disposed and
247 Life, IX | them up altogether. But God Himself, as I have just
248 Life, X | feeling of the presence of God would come over me unexpectedly,
249 Life, X | things it understands; for God wills it to understand that
250 Life, X | is all of it the gift of God. However, I think we can
251 Life, X | beginning, a soul in which God works this grace thinks
252 Life, X | own power, though without God nothing can be done—cannot,
253 Life, X | testimony of our having pleased God? Let him, then, who shall
254 Life, X | humility not to believe that God is bestowing His gifts upon
255 Life, X | that it is perfectly clear God bestows His gifts without
256 Life, X | walk in simplicity before God, aiming at pleasing Him
257 Life, X | that we have our being from God, that He has created us
258 Life, X | which some servants of God have already received? It
259 Life, X | things who does not know that God is on his side; for so miserable
260 Life, X | pledges of the love which God bears him, together with
261 Life, X | of them for the love of God. Persons so learned and
262 Life, X | virtue.~ ./. 15. Blessed be God for all, and may His infinite
263 Life, XI | Quickly to the Perfect Love of God. Of Four Degrees of Prayer.
264 Life, XI | giving ourselves wholly to God, that, as His Majesty will
265 Life, XI | think we are giving all to God; but, in fact, we are offering
266 Life, XI | that we had given it up to God. We would seize it again,
267 Life, XI | this of seeking the love of God! we retain our own affections,
268 Life, XI | with all his might; for God withholds Himself from no
269 Life, XI | himself, with the help of God, so as to reach the summit
270 Life, XI | always take many with him: God gives to him, as to a good
271 Life, XI | resolution, and great grace from God, to save them from falling
272 Life, XI | gardeners, by the help of God, to see that the plants
273 Life, XI | sincerely resolved on serving God. They must strive to meditate
274 Life, XI | water up out of the well. God grant there may be water
275 Life, XI | the flowers. So good is God, that when, for reasons
276 Life, XI | considered it was a mercy of God. I know these labours are
277 Life, XI | I have seen clearly that God does not leave them without
278 Life, XI | converse in solitude with God, and to abandon the amusements
279 Life, XI | certain that the love of God does not consist in tears,
280 Life, XI | through consolations, as God is doing now, so that I
281 Life, XI | But when the servants of God, who are men of weight,
282 Life, XI | as I see they do, whether God gives them sweetness in
283 Life, XI | and make much of it, when God gives it—because, when
284 Life, XI | misery of one that loves God to see itself living in
285 Life, XI | the body, for the love of God, because at many other times
286 Life, XI | is convenient for us. Let God be served in all things—
287 Life, XI | that time it is the will of God to multiply our virtues
288 Life, XII | neither be merited nor had, if God grants it not. It is best
289 Life, XII | is best for a soul which God has not raised to a higher
290 Life, XII | resolutions to do much for God, and enkindle its love;
291 Life, XII | called The Art of Serving God,178 a most excellent work,
292 Life, XII | the nearer we draw unto God the more this virtue should
293 Life, XII | ascend higher, seeing that God descends so low, when He
294 Life, XII | and of its glory, or unto God and His great wisdom. I
295 Life, XII | of the things of earth, God gave me grace to understand
296 Life, XII | namely, let them not rise if God does not raise them—is
297 Life, XII | ceases from its acts, because God suspends it—as I shall
298 Life, XII | and by, if I can;184 and God give me the grace to do
299 Life, XII | a long time, too, though God gave me understanding herein,
300 Life, XII | but only about vanity—God gave me to understand with
301 Life, XII | labours to draw near unto God in humility. On the contrary,
302 Life, XIII | men usually sin against God; for it is a most necessary
303 Life, XIII | desires, but put our trust in God; for, if we do violence
304 Life, XIII | all things are possible in God."188 I saw clearly that
305 Life, XIII | ourselves, by the grace of God, to hold the world in profound
306 Life, XIII | me that our confidence in God is so scanty, and our self-love
307 Life, XIII | yet have the fruition of God in the next; and so it will
308 Life, XIII | 10. But when it pleased God to let me find out this
309 Life, XIII | whole world there is only God and our soul. This is a
310 Life, XIII | out of their desire that God may not be offended, and
311 Life, XIII | and of a great zeal for God. I am not speaking of the
312 Life, XIII | itself, and in pleasing God. This is the most profitable
313 Life, XIII | this way, by the grace of God, which is necessary in all
314 Life, XIII | the power and greatness of God in His creatures, and on
315 Life, XIII | do. From silly devotions, God deliver us!~25. I will explain
316 Life, XIII | be of service to me, and God will enable them to understand
317 Life, XIII | the world, let him praise God for the power he has of
318 Life, XIII | the right person. I praise God greatly—we women, and
319 Life, XIII | advantage of their learning: God grant it may not be so!~
320 Life, XIV | to become the prisoner of God; for it knows well what
321 Life, XIV | the well. The tears, which God now sends, flow with joy;
322 Life, XIV | nearer to essential virtue, God Himself, from Whom all virtues
323 Life, XIV | our Lord did not grant it. God, in His great mercy, will
324 Life, XIV | seeing that we know that God understands us always, and
325 Life, XIV | to do with itself; for if God leads it by the way of fear,
326 Life, XIV | come from the Spirit of God. I mean, known as things
327 Life, XIV | even if they do come from God, now and then the devil
328 Life, XIV | ours are sufficient, if God withholds from us the waters
329 Life, XIV | so, I beseech Thee, O my God, and may I sing of them
330 Life, XIV | abstain from the praises of God when, in the course of writing,
331 Life, XIV | the greater, seeing that God has forgiven me more, as
332 Life, XV | soul is so satisfied in God that, although two of its
333 Life, XV | will abides in union with God, so its peace and quiet
334 Life, XV | little spark of the love of God from being quenched.~3.
335 Life, XV | most certainly it is not God; for when His Majesty shows
336 Life, XV | that they will never offend God, nor fall into sin,—though
337 Life, XV | the work of the Spirit of God, and not a sweetness supplied
338 Life, XV | This spark, then, given of God, however slight it may be,
339 Life, XV | that most vehement love of God which His Majesty will have
340 Life, XV | is a sign or pledge which God gives to a soul, in token
341 Life, XV | there must be many, because God is patient with us, for
342 Life, XV | talent; for it may be that God has chosen them to be the
343 Life, XV | days, when the friends of God should be strong, in order
344 Life, XV | mischief to themselves—and God grant it be to themselves
345 Life, XV | reflections whereby to give God thanks for this grace, and
346 Life, XV | to any good purpose with God, and that our own efforts
347 Life, XV | except His mere goodness, why God should grant us so great
348 Life, XV | all, by the goodness of God, have come to this state;
349 Life, XV | souls, when done simply for God.~13. So, then, when the
350 Life, XV | ourselves in simplicity before God, who will have the soul
351 Life, XV | proceeds from the Spirit of God, or is brought about by
352 Life, XV | commencement of devotion which God gives; and we seek of ourselves, ./.
353 Life, XV | wrought if it comes from God; it leaves neither light
354 Life, XV | if the soul directs unto God the joy and sweetness it
355 Life, XV | contrary, by the permission of God, he will lose much by that
356 Life, XV | thinks the joy comes from God, to betake itself often
357 Life, XV | comes from the Spirit of God; of that it will make much.
358 Life, XV | at certain times, when God will try them, and when
359 Life, XV | delivered from offending God, and from the commission
360 Life, XV | the work of the Spirit of God, there is no necessity for
361 Life, XV | The knowledge with which God supplies us, in order that
362 Life, XV | visible beginning of a love of God, utterly divested of all
363 Life, XV | to persuade it now that God was not with it, till it
364 Life, XV | certain conviction that God is with them benefits more
365 Life, XV | remembrance of the mercies of God makes it turn to Him more
366 Life, XV | that, with the help of God, I shall be able to speak
367 Life, XVI | world, and a fruition of God. I know of no other words
368 Life, XVI | that it was the work of God, but I never was able to
369 Life, XVI | occupying themselves wholly with God; not ./. one of them ventures
370 Life, XVI | bliss, to the praise of God, and help it to praise Him.
371 Life, XVI | singing the praises of God. I have a very great devotion
372 Life, XVI | sinners like myself.~6. O my God, what must that soul be
373 Life, XVI | complained of it in that way to God. She was willing to be cut
374 Life, XVI | This Thy servant, O my God, is no longer able to endure
375 Life, XVI | disposing yourself so that God may bestow this grace upon
376 Life, XVI | and be more pleasing unto God; for there is no one that
377 Life, XVI | great fire of the love of God, as the Apostles were, casting
378 Life, XVI | maintained for the glory of God; for he who is courageously
379 Life, XVI | courageously in earnest for God, looks upon loss or gain
380 Life, XVII | more correctly, of what God is doing within it; for
381 Life, XVII | itself into the arms of God altogether; if He will take
382 Life, XVII | the soul understands that God is doing His work without
383 Life, XVII | their fragrance; for when God raises a soul up to this
384 Life, XVII | union of the whole soul with God, but for this, that His
385 Life, XVII(239) | Concept. of the Love of God, ch. vii.~
386 Life, XVII | satisfaction, greater joys in God, longings for the satisfaction
387 Life, XVII | particularly to myself. God has very often bestowed
388 Life, XVII | occupied in the fruition of God: like a person who looks
389 Life, XVII | then, I say to Him: O my God, when shall my soul praise
390 Life, XVII | to be always occupied in God.240~10. I say that it happens
391 Life, XVII | remedy for it; and, hitherto, God has told me of none. If
392 Life, XVII | distinctly the great power of God, seeing that the faculty
393 Life, XVII | go with its subject; for God alone can take it from it,
394 Life, XVII | follow after them. Sometimes God is pleased to take pity
395 Life, XVII | well, you may believe that God has spoken it, and you will
396 Life, XVIII | Blessed be Thou for ever, O my God! Let all creatures praise
397 Life, XVIII | receive these graces, or when God is about to bestow them,
398 Life, XVIII | edify many.~7. Thou, O my God, knowest already that I
399 Life, XVIII | obedience! it can do everything! God enlightened my understanding—
400 Life, XVIII | with all its might, to seek God and to please Him; so now
401 Life, XVIII | while thus seeking after God, is conscious, with a joy
402 Life, XVIII | afterwards as if in disorder: God, from time to time, drawing
403 Life, XVIII | represented as being close to God; and that there abides a
404 Life, XVIII | thing—I did not know that God was in all things:253 and
405 Life, XIX | were now hewn in pieces for God, it would be a great consolation
406 Life, XIX | with the great mercy of God, in great distinctness;
407 Life, XIX | itself in the praises of God, and I would gladly undo
408 Life, XIX | others,255 and to pray to God that itself may not be the
409 Life, XIX | to trust in the power of God; even if they should fall
410 Life, XIX | to drag me thither. O my God, was there ever blindness
411 Life, XIX | helps it, by the goodness of God, to make greater progress
412 Life, XIX | believe I ever shall, if God of His goodness will not
413 Life, XIX | for when I consider what God must have borne with from
414 Life, XIX | little of the mercies of God. There was no harm in these
415 Life, XIX | prayer, for the love of God, look well to this. They
416 Life, XIX | greatly merited in the eyes of God; for it was he who roused
417 Life, XIX | the giving up of prayer. God, of His mercy, keeps us
418 Life, XIX | —and, for the love of God, consider it well,—that
419 Life, XIX | receive great graces from God in prayer, must never rely
420 Life, XIX | the grace be really from God, lies in the traitor's making
421 Life, XIX | mine, but the teaching of God, and accordingly I wish
422 Life, XIX | sees itself so near unto God, when it sees the difference
423 Life, XIX | excessive confidence in God, without discretion: because
424 Life, XIX | forth out of its nest, and God Himself may take it out,
425 Life, XIX | respect to that soul which God raises to this state, that
426 Life, XIX | rely on the goodness of God, which is greater than ./.
427 Life, XX | explain, with the help of God, wherein union differs from
428 Life, XX(267) | has a greater fruition of God, and that God takes it then
429 Life, XX(267) | fruition of God, and that God takes it then more into
430 Life, XX | ourselves into the hands of God, and go willingly whither
431 Life, XX | comes upon me of offending God, who is so mighty. This
432 Life, XX | above all created things. God then so strips it of everything,
433 Life, XX | that loneliness; and though God seems, as it were, far away
434 Life, XX | and saying, "Where is Thy God?"278 And it is to be remembered,
435 Life, XX | marvellous knowledge of God, above all that we can desire—
436 Life, XX | that it seeks nothing but God; yet its love dwells not
437 Life, XX | everything in my eagerness to see God; and this abandonment and
438 Life, XX | because profoundly united with God,—for then it neither sees,
439 Life, XX | transformation of the soul in God continues only for an instant;
440 Life, XX | on the earth—at least, God will not have us understand
441 Life, XX | inebriated with the praises of God, or with searching to comprehend
442 Life, XX | raise up the standard of God. The soul, as in a place
443 Life, XX | of all it has to do. O my God, how clear is the meaning
444 Life, XX | received consolations from God! It would like to cry out
445 Life, XX | and is not pleasing unto God. The soul laughs at itself
446 Life, XX | careful about not offending God, and that it did what it
447 Life, XX | good it has, it refers to God; if it says anything about
448 Life, XXI | or honour for the love of God. What a grand thing this
449 Life, XXI | greatest blessings.~4. O my God, make kings to understand
450 Life, XXI | recommend them greatly to God, and I wish I might be of
451 Life, XXI | desires it has to serve God; for His Majesty gives it
452 Life, XXI | if only it thinks that God may be served thereby: and
453 Life, XXI | nothing, except pleasing God. The trial is, that those
454 Life, XXI | Thy good pleasure, O my God, that the time may come
455 Life, XXI | been Thy pleasure, O my God, that I should do any thing:
456 Life, XXI | reason why St. Paul prayed to God to deliver him from it.303
457 Life, XXI | Apostle, and calls upon God to deliver it, as I said
458 Life, XXI | living always away from God, would temper the fear of
459 Life, XXI | the fire of the love of God has grown so strong? Their
460 Life, XXI | come from the Spirit of God. The truth is, that these
461 Life, XXI | and live in sin against God, as it did before.~12. The
462 Life, XXI | by preferring the love of God to this their dignity, than
463 Life, XXI | much more advanced; for God is ever giving it grace
464 Life, XXI | giving it grace upon grace. God is the soul of that soul
465 Life, XXI | reached this state, in which God showed me mercy so great,
466 Life, XXI | contributed to make me know God more, and to love Him; to
467 Life, XXI | up everything utterly for God. If His Majesty repays us
468 Life, XXII | Holy Ghost, that He is both God and Man, His bodily Presence
469 Life, XXII | not said to the Mother of God, though she loved Him more
470 Life, XXII | within a definite space, God everywhere around, and himself
471 Life, XXII | what I cannot endure. May God help me to explain myself!
472 Life, XXII | understanding what they say: God, too, is guiding souls by
473 Life, XXII | visions, and other graces of God given to souls,—will consider
474 Life, XXII | sense of the presence of God: this was true, and I contrived
475 Life, XXII | is full of sweetness, if God helps us in it, and the
476 Life, XXII | that if we are to please God, and if He is to give us
477 Life, XXII | explain it.314~12. When God suspends all the powers
478 Life, XXII | have always—and please God it be always!—the most
479 Life, XXII | rest on, how full soever of God it may think itself to be.~
480 Life, XXII | be very often so full of God as to be in ./. need of
481 Life, XXII | as I said before.317~16. God is greatly pleased when
482 Life, XXII | experience: it was thus that God directed my soul. Others
483 Life, XXII | itself in prayer, the more God lifts it up. I do not remember
484 Life, XXII | reverence in the presence of God, but only that they are
485 Life, XXII | ourselves into the hands of God. If it be His Majesty's
486 Life, XXII | have sometimes said,327 God is more careful of us than
487 Life, XXII | will has been given up to God? I think this less endurable
488 Life, XXII | never improve it; but if God gives him a good voice,
489 Life, XXII | trusting in the goodness of God. And now that the soul is
490 Life, XXII | shall be strong enough, God will lead it into the wilderness.328~
491 Life, XXII | are beginning to taste of God, do not trust them if they
492 Life, XXII | have a deeper fruition of God, when they make efforts
493 Life, XXII | efforts of their own. Oh, when God wills it, how He discovers
494 Life, XXII | a thing to believe, that God will wait till the toad
495 Life, XXII | spirit to rise upwards, if God does not ./. raise it,
496 Life, XXII | that love is which our Lord God has shown us, in giving
497 Life, XXII | degree of strength which God then gives is very different
498 Life, XXII | thoroughly believe that God rewards a hundredfold even
499 Life, XXII | like them, by the grace of God. In short, the whole matter
500 Life, XXII | There are also some whom God leads at once by the highest