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1 1 | persevering in the grace of God to the end. As the holy
2 1 | filled with the Spirit of God, shone forth mightily before
3 1 | Silvester held converse with God, like one friend with another,
4 2 | received great graces from God"; and so resolved to invite
5 2 | devotion and fervour, "My God! my God!" at the same time
6 2 | and fervour, "My God! my God!" at the same time weeping
7 2 | and fervour the words, "My God! my God!" and none others.
8 2 | fervour the words, "My God! my God!" and none others. And this
9 2 | admired the divine majesty of God, who deigned to take pity
10 2 | foresaw the great things which God would deign to accomplish
11 2 | the poor, for the love of God, and made himself a Brother
12 2 | Bernard likewise received from God many graces - he was ravished
13 3 | of holding converse with God Almighty, of which Saint
14 3 | his knees, praying that God would reveal to him why
15 3 | prayed, a voice came from God, which said, "O poor little
16 3 | it meet for man to leave God for the creature? When thou
17 3 | received this answer from God, went back with great haste
18 3 | been and the answer which God had made him; and with these
19 3 | who was his first son in God -~to the praise and glory
20 IV | Chapter IV~How the angel of god put a question to brother
21 IV | Church of St James, and God revealed to St Francis how
22 IV | and because they knew that God revealed to him great things
23 IV | young man was the angel of God, under the form of a traveller.
24 IV | all had been revealed by God, returning from the forest,
25 IV | sent away the holy angel of God, who came to instruct us.
26 IV | greeted him with the words, "God give thee peace, good brother."
27 IV | knew him for the angel of God, and with great joy and
28 IV | exclaimed: "Blessed angel of God, tell me thy name." The
29 1 | companions, being called by God to carry the cross of Christ
30 1 | souls which they gained to God. It happened that, in the
31 1 | according to the grace which God had given him. So Brother
32 1 | him as a true friend of God." And addressing Brother
33 1 | which thou mayest serve God according to thy heart's
34 1 | Bernard, rendered thanks to God, who thus began to spread
35 2 | it was revealed to him by God that Brother Bernard, by
36 2 | Bernard are permitted by God, to increase his virtue
37 2 | Francis with joy; he thanked God; and from that moment, Brother
38 2 | to Brother Bernard: "May God, the Father of our Lord
39 2 | art my first-born son in God, chosen in this Order to
40 2 | likewise offer thyself to God in this Order as a sacrifice
41 3 | salvation of souls. Wherefore God the Father willed that in
42 3 | when he was inspired by God to go and pass the time
43 3 | friend, for the love of God, to convey him in his boat
44 3 | Saviour. In later times God worked many miracles, through
45 4 | Leo, if it were to please God that the Friars Minor should
46 4 | Leo, thou little lamb of God! if the Friars Minor could
47 4 | knows us, and that it is God who maketh him to speak
48 4 | shelter, for the love of God, and if he come out more
49 4 | for in all other gifts of God we cannot glory, seeing
50 4 | from ourselves but from God, according to the words
51 4 | thou hast not received from God? and if thou hast received
52 5 | employ the time in praising God, I will speak, and thou
53 5 | begin, then, in the name of God." St Francis therefore began
54 5 | Brother Leo made answer: "God will work so much good through
55 5 | many iniquities against God, that thou art worthy to
56 5 | Francis, dost thou think God will have mercy on thee,
57 5 | Brother Leo answered: "God the Father, whose mercy
58 5 | respect Brother Leo answered: "God knows, my Father, that I
59 5 | Speak, in the name of God; for this time most certainly
60 5 | Francis, dost thou think that God will have mercy on thee?"
61 5 | otherwise, because it is God that speaketh by my lips."
62 6 | and through the grace of God~St Francis once was living
63 6 | held frequent converse with God; for which reason St Francis
64 6 | space with his mind rapt in God; then, coming to himself,
65 6 | down, returning thanks to God with great fervour of spirit,
66 7 | should take. "The one which God wills," answered St Francis.
67 7 | are we to know the will of God?" "By the sign I shall show
68 7 | Francis, "which it pleaseth God we should take." As he went
69 7 | sought only the glory of God, rose very early with his
70 7 | accomplished by an angel of God: so that even were he to
71 7 | at Siena is the work of God, as the result proveth,
72 7 | manifestly from the will of God." Now all these things which
73 7 | useful, and inspired by God; but thy murmurings, which
74 XII | gifts he had received from God, and also that, through
75 XII | of preaching the word of God and of pleasing the people.
76 XII | enlightened by the Spirit of God, seeing him thus employed,
77 XII | and graces we receive from God, so much greater must be
78 1 | their bread for the love of God. St Francis took one street,
79 1 | Wherefore let us beg of God to make us love with all
80 1 | can freely commune with God. Through this virtue it
81 1 | followers shall be blessed by God." Having said these words
82 1 | Masseo, he asked him if God had revealed anything to
83 2 | of them, in the name of God, to open his mouth and speak
84 2 | spoke most wonderfully of God. Then St Francis bade him
85 2 | deeply of the things of God, that St Francis was convinced
86 2 | beloved brothers, let us thank God, who has deigned to reveal
87 3 | virgin so holy and so dear to God, who merely asks for once
88 3 | together in the name of God." When the appointed day
89 3 | Francis began to speak of God so sweetly, so sublimely,
90 3 | wonderful, that the grace of God visited them abundantly,
91 3 | not a material one, which God miraculously had sent to
92 4 | wishing to know the will of God, he sought to learn it through
93 4 | that whatever he asked of God was granted to his prayer,
94 4 | what she had learnt from God; and she told him that she
95 4 | companions had received from God the same answer as the Lord
96 4 | Let us go in the name of God"; and taking with him Brother
97 4 | guided by the Spirit of God, without considering the
98 4 | the birds, ye owe much to God, your Creator, and ye ought
99 4 | always to give praise to God." As he said these words,
100 4 | lives on the providence of God~To the praise and glory
101 5 | grew up in the grace of God, and had a great devotion
102 6 | occupied in conversing about God, or in prayer, or in works
103 6 | Truly this is the field of God; this is the army, and these
104 6 | fervour of spirit the Word of God, speaking to them in a loud
105 6 | promised great things to God, and God has promised even
106 6 | great things to God, and God has promised even greater
107 6 | among themselves, to pray God for all people, to bear
108 6 | chastity, to be at peace with God, with men and with their
109 6 | to pray, and to praise God, casting on him the thought
110 6 | the divine providence of God which had provided for them
111 6 | poverty; and, in the name of God, I condemn all friars of
112 6 | blessed the providence of God, who had given them every
113 6 | his blessing and that of God, filled with spiritual joy
114 7 | that it was sent to him by God as a punishment for his
115 7 | out with a loud voice: "My God, I am worthy of this, and
116 7 | treasure." And the voice of God said again: "Rejoice with
117 7 | church; and, for the love of God and of me his poor servant,
118 8 | have been given to us by God, in exchange for the coarse
119 9 | putting all his confidence in God, he went forth from the
120 9 | killing the creatures of God without his permission;
121 9 | made after the image of God; for which thing thou art
122 9 | concluded in the name of God"; and the wolf, obeying
123 9 | things, how for our sins God permits such calamities,
124 9 | heaven, praising and blessing God, who had sent them St Francis,
125 10 | the young man, inspired by God, immediately gave them to
126 10 | according to the command of God." Then St Francis made nests
127 11 | saw, by the revelation of God, that all the convent was
128 11 | his good shepherd, thanked God, and returned to the little
129 XXIV| to death. Now it pleased God that St Francis and his
130 XXIV| those parts, was warned by God to return with his brethren
131 XXIV| heaven, by the grace of God, I will send thee two of
132 XXIV| that, when the grace of God arrives, thou mayest be
133 XXIV| he gave up his soul to God. The Sultan, having fallen
134 XXIV| Now I know of a truth that God has sent his servants to
135 1 | leper, and said to him: "May God give thee peace, my beloved
136 1 | peace can I look for from God, who has taken from me peace
137 1 | of the body are given by God in this world for the salvation
138 1 | work, returned thanks to God, and set out for a distant
139 1 | sought only the glory of God, and not his own. It pleased
140 1 | not his own. It pleased God that the leper, who had
141 1 | which I return thanks to God and to thee. Blessed by
142 1 | do not return thanks to God for the holy fruits of thy
143 2 | things, through the grace of God I shall be able to do so
144 2 | charity to the servants of God - you who are not worthy
145 2 | sinners are brought back to God more easily by kindness
146 2 | evil any more, but to fear God and never again offend him.
147 2 | latter began to pray, asking God to touch the hearts of the
148 2 | commanded; and it pleased God that as the robbers ate
149 2 | conscience, and no fear of God! and behold this holy friar
150 2 | indeed are holy religious of God who merit his Paradise,
151 2 | find mercy in the sight of God." One of them having spoken
152 2 | find mercy in the sight of God, we will do what he shall
153 2 | not look for mercy from God; but if thou hast a hope
154 2 | many proofs of the mercy of God, and promising them to ask
155 2 | without number the mercy of God is even greater, according
156 2 | having no refuge but in God, he bent down, and clinging
157 2 | and recommended himself to God. Having finished his prayer,
158 3 | that they had been sent by God to be examples of virtue
159 3 | succeeding he believed that God had abandoned him. Being
160 3 | is wont, I may hope that God will have pity on me; but
161 3 | the Bishop of Assisi; and God revealed to him the whole
162 3 | himself with joy; and thanking God with all his heart, he reached
163 4 | manifestation of the grace of God in the poor followers of
164 4 | Francis, he was often rapt in God through the contemplation
165 4 | his mind was so raised to God that he was transfixed and
166 4 | had received a gift from God which had been given to
167 4 | which he had received from God, St Francis willingly and
168 5 | the number of the elect of God; which was being revealed
169 5 | but I, who am the Son of God. Know of a certainty that
170 5 | enlightened by the Spirit of God and knowing the deceits
171 5 | compared to an angel of God, who has made known the
172 5 | have received the grace of God; wherefore I will at all
173 5 | and night he was rapt in God, and from that moment he
174 6 | contemplation, was so absorbed in God that he became almost insensible
175 6 | to the people that which God should dictate to him. On
176 6 | if he were a madman? May God forgive thee! But thou shalt
177 6 | keep the commandments of God and love the Lord and thy
178 6 | praising and glorifying God, who had given them grace
179 7 | which were made to him by God with regard to his first
180 7 | in a convent talking of God, when Brother Ruffino was
181 8 | a man, a great friend of God, to whom had been given
182 8 | confirmed him in the grace of God; for it caused him to increase
183 8 | with which the friend of God of whom he had heard was
184 9 | bless it in the name of God." At this St Clare, like
185 9 | seen the miracle, thanked God; and taking some of the
186 10 | the secret mysteries of God, that words would have been
187 11 | Oh, if it had but pleased God that you should have been
188 13 | they had been angels of God, with so much courtesy and
189 13 | as, though the grace of God, it is in my power to do
190 13 | riches, and out of love to God, who gave them to me, most
191 13 | seeing he is so grateful to God, and so king and courteous
192 13 | one of the attributes of God, who sendeth his rain on
193 13 | the meantime we will pray God to put this desire into
194 13 | courteous nobleman, as I hope in God that, amongst his temporal
195 13 | his rooms; and it pleased God that he should perceive
196 13 | devoutly returning thanks to God, who had made such a present
197 14 | convent, it was revealed by God to St Francis that Brother
198 14 | has been revealed to me by God that thou wilt apostatise,
199 14 | without thy help. Pray to God for me, that, if possible,
200 14 | recommend me, a sinner, to God, who came into the world
201 14 | entreat him, for the love of God and of St Francis his servant,
202 14 | servant. And it pleased God that the holy Father granted
203 15 | and explained the word of God so devoutly, so sweetly,
204 16 | XL~Of the miracle which God performed when st Anthony,
205 16 | St Anthony, inspired by God, went down to the sea-shore,
206 16 | Listen to the word of God, O ye fishes of the sea
207 16 | element for your nourishment. God, your bountiful and kind
208 16 | perished; you alone did God preserve from all harm.
209 16 | according to the commandment of God, to keep the prophet Jonas,
210 16 | Blessed be the eternal God; for the fishes of the sea
211 16 | fishes, with the blessing of God; and they all departed,
212 17 | brothers he spoke always of God. He had never learned grammar,
213 17 | James of Massa to speak of God, and they spent the whole
214 17 | divine communications with God, and his spirit was so overflowing
215 17 | visitations he was often rapt in God, and quite insensible to
216 17 | as he was thus rapt in God, and insensible to the world,
217 17 | the soul, by speaking of God. A young man of San Severino,
218 17 | and he spoke to him of God so earnestly, that the temptation
219 17 | it by speaking to him of God, and he did the same thing
220 17 | side, and talked to him of God; the young man listened,
221 17 | converted into the Spirit of God, for he had approached the
222 17 | inflamed with the love of God and of his neighbours. Finding
223 18 | taught by the Spirit of God, his preaching produced
224 18 | whatever grace thou askest of God, I will obtain for thee."
225 18 | namely, that thou obtain from God the pardon of my sins."
226 18 | the forest to meditate on God, Brother Peter followed
227 18 | secret the grace with which God had favoured him, entreated
228 19 | meritorious in the sight of God, that Christ, the blessed
229 19 | begged him, for the love of God and of holy charity, to
230 19 | this conversion it pleased God to take him out of the world;
231 19 | answered: "By the grace of God, and through thy teaching,
232 19 | prayers are most acceptable to God." Then Brother Conrad, continuing
233 19 | dearest Father, in the name of God, for thy great charity towards
234 20 | together returned thanks to God.~To the praise and glory
235 21 | earnest desire to serve God, said to him: "Come to me
236 21 | to heaven. But it pleased God that he should remain in
237 21 | virtue and in favour with God and man; so that he was
238 21 | that, through the mercy of God, the promise would be accomplished.
239 21 | gifts that he received from God was the spirit of prophecy.
240 21 | die in it, in the grace of God." And the said novice remained
241 21 | after Matins an angel of God appeared to him, saying: "
242 21 | make known to thee from God that thou mayest ask of
243 21 | likewise that thou hast served God for many years in this holy
244 21 | not know that the mercy of God is greater than all the
245 21 | joined his hands, thanking God for having permitted him
246 22 | some distance. It pleased God that Brother Pacifico, being
247 22 | friars; for, thanks be to God, it is not through carnal
248 22 | had told them, and praised God who did such wonderful things
249 23 | and he was often rapt in God. He possessed the grace
250 23 | life, it was the will of God that he should fall dangerously
251 23 | whom, through the mercy of God, he was visited and healed.
252 23 | compassionate Mother of God continued to give him the
253 23 | said: "O blessed Mother of God, if my soul is, as it were,
254 24 | greater in the sight of God than this Brother James.
255 24 | in prayer, ravished in God, remaining for three days
256 25 | holy child, inspired by God, resolved to leave the world
257 25 | the said master speak of God, he felt his heart to burn
258 25 | mountain of Alvernia. But as God takes especial care of his
259 25 | thee, Son of the most high God, I am in confusion and in
260 25 | me, then, beloved Son of God, that I may love thee with
261 26 | and devoutly offered it to God the Father, entreating him,
262 27 | pray for him, imploring God most devoutly in prayer
263 27 | faithful servant and friend of God; Brother James, companion
264 28 | all his hope and love in God, the divine bounty granted
265 28 | some great consolation from God, the Holy Spirit filled
266 28 | visitations and consolations from God, and was often rapt in ecsasty,
267 28 | especially he was so rapt in God, that he saw in him all
268 28 | to its Creator, and how God is above, and within, and
269 28 | acquainted likewise with one God in three persons and three
270 28 | and three persons in one God, and the infinite love which
271 28 | love which made the Son of God to become man out of obedience
272 28 | which the soul can go to God, and have life eternal,
273 29 | brethren, the unction of God's grace coming upon him,
274 29 | angels, and the Spirit of God made knows to him high mysteries
275 29 | sensation of ardent love towards God so increased in his heart,
276 29 | a long time, it pleased God that Brother John should
277 29 | begged him, for the love of God, to tell me everything.
278 29 | been revealed to him by God that he should faint away
279 29 | revelation did not come from God. Nevertheless, about fifty
280 29 | again revealed to him by God that it should so happen
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