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1 11 | mercy and truth (Psalms xxv. 10); and yet the Lord is righteous
2 4 | signifying it is conceived; (2) when the thing itself is
3 26 | joy may be full (John xvi. 24). For I have found a joy
4 25 | the Lord (Psalms xxxvii. 39) If it is satisfaction of
5 25 | as the sun (Matthew xiii. 43) If swiftness or endurance,
6 25 | body (I Corinthians xv. 44) --in power certainly, though
7 25 | you rejoice, if you did abound in all these things! Ask
8 1 | we sigh with hunger. He abounded, we beg. He possessed in
9 25 | Why, then, do you wander abroad, slight man, in your search
10 1 | shall I seek you, being absent? But if you are everywhere,
11 22 | this does not properly and absolutely exist.~But you are what
12 3 | Creator; and this is most absurd. And, indeed, whatever else
13 9 | O compassion, from what abundant sweetness and what sweet
14 25 | of thirst, they shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness
15 25 | not lose it of their own accord; and that God, who loves
16 Pre| fell to their perusal. I accordingly gave each a title, that
17 1 | wrong-doing, that it cannot achieve that for which it was made,
18 1 | you in finding. Lord, I acknowledge and I thank you that you
19 9 | deserts oppose. Those by acknowledging the goods you has granted;
20 25 | man, needy heart, heart acquainted with sorrows, nay, overwhelmed
21 20 | by no means? For so they actually have an end, in a certain
22 8 | compassionate because you are affected by no sympathy for wretchedness.~ ~
23 10 | not because you feel an affection (affectum), but because
24 10 | because you feel an affection (affectum), but because we feel the
25 8 | experience the feeling (affectus) of compassion.~BUT how
26 2 | conceives of what he will afterwards perform, he has it in his
27 1 | of God, and such as can aid you in seeking him; close
28 Pre| this brief work the author aims at proving in a single argument
29 18 | dissolution. But these things are alien to you, than whom nothing
30 11 | comprehend why, of those who are alike wicked, you save some rather
31 9 | CHAPTER IX.~How the all-just and supremely just God spares
32 22 | one supreme good; you are all-sufficient to yourself, and need none;
33 26 | blessed for ever and ever. Amen.~
34 1 | come? To what did I aspire? Amid what thoughts am I sighing?
35 13 | alone eternal; for you alone among all beings not only do not
36 6 | highest degree; and not as an animal cognises, through a corporeal
37 1 | What shall your servant do, anxious in his love of you, and
38 13 | is that which, when it is anywhere as a whole, can at the same
39 25 | the glory of the Lord has appeared (Psalms xvii. 15). If it
40 7 | many words are improperly applied, as when we use "to be"
41 Pre| especially Hugo, the reverend Archbishop of Lyons, who discharges
42 Pre| together by the linking of many arguments, I began to ask myself whether
43 9 | but the spring whence it arises is not seen. For, it is
44 24 | life!~AND now, my soul, arouse and lift up all your understanding,
45 1 | have I come? To what did I aspire? Amid what thoughts am I
46 26 | in you. And if I cannot attain to full joy in this life
47 1 | with us. Our labors and attempts are in vain without God.
48 9 | from you. Spare, in mercy; avenge not, in justice.~For, though
49 18 | of God, and I have fallen back into my darkness. Nay, not
50 Pre| be called a book, or to bear the name of an author; and
51 10 | because you do that which becomes you as the supremely good
52 1 | hunger. He abounded, we beg. He possessed in happiness,
53 22 | altogether what it is. And what begins from non-existence, and
54 1 | of him, and love him. The believer does not seek to understand,
55 9 | demand. But, when you do bestow goods on the evil, and it
56 1 | has made me anew, and has bestowed upon me all the blessing
57 9 | just, who lacks nothing, bestows goods on the wicked and
58 1 | Lord, my heart is made bitter by its desolation; sweeten
59 1 | of immortality into the bitterness and horror of death. Miserable
60 1 | bestowed upon me all the blessing I enjoy; and not yet do
61 1 | thoughts am I sighing? I sought blessings, and lo! confusion. I strove
62 1 | of God into our present blindness, from the joy of immortality
63 13 | everything that is in any way bounded by place or time is less
64 4 | formerly believed by your bounty, I now so understand by
65 1 | which I may eat. Lord, I am bowed down and can only look downward;
66 1 | lose hope in sighs, but may breathe anew in hope. Lord, my heart
67 Pre| solicitous entreaties of certain brethren, a brief work (the Monologium)
68 16 | long. It is dazzled by the brightness, it is overcome by the greatness,
69 1 | thoughts. Cast aside, now, your burdensome cares, and put away your
70 1 | and put away your toilsome business. Yield room for some little
71 Pre| thought altogether, lest, by busying my mind to no purpose, it
72 1 | stumbled on myself. I sought calm in privacy, and I found
73 1 | contemplation of God. --It casts aside cares, and excludes
74 1 | in him. Enter the inner chamber of your mind; shut out all
75 25 | it is melody, there the choirs of angels sing forever,
76 1 | of the sons of Hades! He choked with satiety, we sigh with
77 26 | surely, with which your chosen ones shall rejoice, eye
78 25 | God, and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans viii. 17).~If true
79 18 | from myself toward you. Cleanse, heal, sharpen, enlighten
80 6 | respect of this, that you do cognise all things in the highest
81 6 | senses; as through sight, of colors; through taste, of flavors, --
82 8 | not compassionate, whence comes so great consolation to
83 26 | through your Son you do command, nay, you do counsel us
84 23 | very good is the one love common to you and to your Son,
85 1 | joy of my mind, and I am compelled to frown by the sorrow of
86 11 | the evil. But if it can be comprehended in any way why you can will
87 2 | exists. When a painter first conceives of what he will afterwards
88 18 | itself, indivisible by any conception. Therefore, life and wisdom
89 25 | them, through himself. If concord, they shall all have a single
90 11 | goodness; and why you do condemn the latter rather than the
91 11 | will to spare should be condemned. For that alone is just
92 11 | his supreme goodness: and condemns those rather than these,
93 Pre| importunity, in the very conflict of my thoughts, the proof
94 24 | CHAPTER XXIV.~Conjecture as to the character and
95 11 | save the wicked, yet by no consideration can we comprehend why, of
96 Pre| of which he is ignorant; considering that this book was knit
97 1 | Whence hurled? Whither consigned to ruin? From a native country
98 1 | but that image has been so consumed and wasted away by vices,
99 Pre| in the person of one who contemplates God, and seeks to understand
100 14 | infinity. Truly, it is both contracted by its own narrowness and
101 2 | Hence, even the fool is convinced that something exists in
102 Pre| But, after, both had been copied by many under these titles,
103 26 | counsel through our wonderful Counsellor. I will receive what you
104 1 | consigned to ruin? From a native country into exile, from the vision
105 Pre| one who investigates, in a course of silent reasoning with
106 1 | except you renew it, and create it anew. I do not endeavor,
107 11 | in all his ways (Psalms cxlv. 17). And assuredly without
108 16 | overwhelmed by the infinity, it is dazed by the largeness, of the
109 9 | you dwell? Truly, in the deepest and most secret parts of
110 9 | concept of justice seems to demand. But, when you do bestow
111 Pre| and alone would suffice to demonstrate that God truly exists, and
112 7 | often we say to a man who denies the existence of something: "
113 1 | from afar, even from the depths. Teach me to seek you, and
114 10 | because you requite us as we deserve, but because you do that
115 18 | overwhelmed with need. I desired now to feast, and lo, I
116 1 | heart is made bitter by its desolation; sweeten you it, I beseech
117 Pre| mental vision, at last in despair I was about to cease, as
118 Pre| the proof of which I had despaired offered itself, so that
119 1 | me not return empty and despised. And if, before I eat, I
120 10 | would be just for you to destroy, you are compassionate,
121 24 | created objects, but as different as the Creator from the
122 Pre| we believe of God. --The difficulty of the task. --The author
123 Pre| Although I often and earnestly directed my thought to this end,
124 Pre| Archbishop of Lyons, who discharges the apostolic office in
125 1 | yourself, for a time, from your disturbing thoughts. Cast aside, now,
126 18 | in some sort plural, and diverse from itself; and either
127 Pre| we believe regarding the divine Being.~Although I often
128 18 | itself, not even in concept divisible.~AND lo, again confusion;
129 7 | said to have the power of doing or experiencing what is
130 1 | seeking him; close your door and seek him. Speak now,
131 25 | blessedness, your joy would be doubled, because you would rejoice
132 2 | impossible. Hence, there is doubt that there exists a being,
133 1 | bowed down and can only look downward; raise me up that I may
134 25 | pleasure, you shall make them drink of the river of your pleasures,
135 1 | to come to you, and your dwelling-place is inaccessible. He is eager
136 16 | unapproachable light wherein he dwells. ~TRULY, O Lord, this is
137 1 | dwelling-place is inaccessible. He is eager to find you, and knows not
138 Pre| offered itself, so that I eagerly embraced the thoughts which
139 Pre| Being.~Although I often and earnestly directed my thought to this
140 24 | delectable, conceive in earnestness how delectable is that good
141 1 | which he hungers now; he eateth now the bread of sorrows,
142 10 | because we feel the effect (effectum); so you are just, not because
143 22 | which there is any mutable element, is not altogether what
144 20 | HENCE, you do permeate and embrace all things. You are before
145 Pre| itself, so that I eagerly embraced the thoughts which I was
146 6 | sensible, since the senses encompass a body and are in a body,
147 1 | create it anew. I do not endeavor, O Lord, to penetrate your
148 20 | an end transcends what is ended in any sense. Or, in this
149 21 | but ages, because of their endless immeasurability. And, although
150 25 | xiii. 43) If swiftness or endurance, or freedom of body, which
151 16 | does the eye of my soul endure to gaze upon it long. It
152 25 | is every good, and it is enough. For, what do you love,
153 23 | every good, and a single entire good, and the only good.~ ~
154 4 | in another, when the very entity, which the object is, is
155 Pre| published, at the solicitous entreaties of certain brethren, a brief
156 18 | it, but I feel that I am enveloped in it. I fell before my
157 23 | CHAPTER XXIII.~This good is equally Father, and Son, and Holy
158 Pre| titles, many urged me, and especially Hugo, the reverend Archbishop
159 18 | In God wisdom, eternity, etc., are not parts, but one,
160 Pre| reach, while again it wholly evaded my mental vision, at last
161 1 | I am, one of the sons of Eve, far removed from God! What
162 9 | who merits eternal death everlasting life? How, then, gracious
163 3 | xiv. 1), since it is so evident, to a rational mind, that
164 9 | boundless goodness, which do so exceed all understanding, let that
165 Pre| So, one day, when I was exceedingly wearied with resisting its
166 1 | horror of death. Miserable exchange of how great a good, for
167 Pre| found. But when I wished to exclude this thought altogether,
168 1 | It casts aside cares, and excludes all thoughts save that of
169 1 | CHAPTER I.~Exhortation of the mind to the contemplation
170 24 | and not such as we have experienced in created objects, but
171 7 | have the power of doing or experiencing what is not for his good,
172 23 | the Word by which you do express yourself; for the Word is
173 23 | in the Word by which he expresses himself. Neither is the
174 23 | and himself, to the whole extent of your being and his. Nor
175 1 | When will you enlighten our eyes, and show us your face?
176 4 | accordance with the nature of the facts themselves, although this
177 14 | sees that it cannot see farther, because of its own darkness.~
178 25 | abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house (Psalms xxxvi.
179 18 | with need. I desired now to feast, and lo, I hunger more.
180 6 | cognition, --for he who feels obtains knowledge in accordance
181 7 | power over him. Or, by a figure of speech, just as many
182 1 | in love, and love you in finding. Lord, I acknowledge and
183 Pre| this might be done more fitly, I named the first, Monologium,
184 6 | colors; through taste, of flavors, --whatever in any way cognises
185 1 | understand.~Up now, slight man! flee, for a little while, your
186 9 | great abundance! Let it flow upon me, for it wells forth
187 Pre| others, I have written the following treatise, in the person
188 Pre| shunned it, it began to force itself upon me, with a kind
189 4 | without any or with some foreign, signification. For, God
190 1 | How long, O Lord, do you forget us; how long do you turn
191 4 | thank you; because what I formerly believed by your bounty,
192 1 | happiness, and miserably forsook his possession; we suffer
193 9 | your goodness is hidden the fountain whence the stream of your
194 25 | swiftness or endurance, or freedom of body, which naught can
195 9 | justice goes with them; he frees sinners by the authority
196 1 | for, and lo! a source of frequent sighs!~And you too, O Lord,
197 25 | reveal itself to them. If friendship, they shall love God more
198 1 | mind, and I am compelled to frown by the sorrow of my heart.
199 25 | shall not suffice for the fulness of their joy.~ ~
200 6 | accordance with the proper functions of his senses; as through
201 Pre| the apostolic office in Gaul, who instructed me to this
202 Pre| their perusal. I accordingly gave each a title, that the first
203 16 | eye of my soul endure to gaze upon it long. It is dazzled
204 18 | one view, that it may be gladdened by all at once. How, then,
205 14 | truth which sees at one glance whatsoever has been made,
206 1 | come to you; let me not go unfed. I have come in poverty
207 25 | called sons of God, and gods; and where his Son shall
208 1 | upward. My iniquities have gone over my head; they overwhelm
209 1 | if, before I eat, I sigh, grant, even after sighs, that
210 9 | acknowledging the goods you has granted; these by pardoning the
211 17 | sinful senses of my soul have grown rigid and dull, and have
212 9 | wicked and on those who are guilty toward you.~The depth of
213 1 | lamentation of the sons of Hades! He choked with satiety,
214 21 | that neither midst, nor half, nor any part, is in you.~ ~
215 10 | and when, on the other hand, you sparest the wicked,
216 Pre| sort, invite one into whose hands they fell to their perusal.
217 1 | we beg. He possessed in happiness, and miserably forsook his
218 1 | without which nothing is happy, and that remains which,
219 9 | pardoning the evils you hate. O boundless goodness, which
220 1 | iniquities have gone over my head; they overwhelm me; and,
221 18 | myself toward you. Cleanse, heal, sharpen, enlighten the
222 25 | eternity is, and an eternal health. For the righteous shall
223 25 | that pleases you, there a healthful eternity is, and an eternal
224 17 | not see your beauty. It hearkens, and does not hear your
225 1 | whose lack we should feel so heavily? Why did he shut us away
226 25 | there they shall be also, heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs
227 1 | your form. What, O most high Lord, shall this man do,
228 3 | other beings, and hence in a higher degree than all others.
229 25 | will cannot fail to be. If honor and riches, God shall make
230 1 | into the bitterness and horror of death. Miserable exchange
231 25 | with the fatness of your house (Psalms xxxvi. 8). If it
232 Pre| urged me, and especially Hugo, the reverend Archbishop
233 1 | of angels, for which he hungers now; he eateth now the bread
234 1 | are we driven on? Whence hurled? Whither consigned to ruin?
235 18 | a unitary being, and so identical with yourself, that in no
236 Pre| matters of which he is ignorant; considering that this book
237 3 | CHAPTER III.~God cannot be conceived
238 4 | now so understand by your illumination, that if I were unwilling
239 21 | because of their endless immeasurability. And, although you are so
240 1 | blindness, from the joy of immortality into the bitterness and
241 25 | before God. If it is any not impure, but pure, pleasure, you
242 1 | and your dwelling-place is inaccessible. He is eager to find you,
243 6 | any way cognises is not inappropriately said, in some sort, to feel.~
244 9 | since your goodness is incomprehensible, is this hidden in the unapproachable
245 11 | And assuredly without inconsistency: For, it is not just that
246 9 | how your compassion is not inconsistent with your justice; yet we
247 26 | full. Let the love of you increase, and there let it be full,
248 24 | great is that good! For, if individual goods are delectable, conceive
249 14 | the soul darkened by its infirmity, or dazzled by your glory?
250 1 | little time in him. Enter the inner chamber of your mind; shut
251 25 | in that perfect love of innumerable blessed angels and sainted
252 14 | both obscured by its own insignificance, and overwhelmed by your
253 Pre| apostolic office in Gaul, who instructed me to this effect on his
254 Pre| in the person of one who investigates, in a course of silent reasoning
255 3 | conceived. But this is an irreconcilable contradiction. There is,
256 4 | CHAPTER IV.~How the fool has said in
257 9 | CHAPTER IX.~How the all-just and supremely
258 25 | of man conceived (Isaiah Ixiv. 4; I Corinthians ii. 9).~
259 26 | that your joy may be full (John xvi. 24). For I have found
260 25 | heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ (Romans viii.
261 25 | contain so many and so great joys? And doubtless, seeing that
262 Pre| what he believes. In my judgment, neither this work nor the
263 18 | In him we all lost, who kept easily, and wickedly lost
264 9 | hidden the reason for this kindness.~For, although you do reward
265 1 | of sorrows, of which he knew not then. Alas! for the
266 Pre| considering that this book was knit together by the linking
267 2 | give me, so far as you knowest it to be profitable, to
268 1 | God it is ill with us. Our labors and attempts are in vain
269 9 | and supremely just, who lacks nothing, bestows goods on
270 1 | mankind, for the universal lamentation of the sons of Hades! He
271 16 | infinity, it is dazed by the largeness, of the light.~O supreme
272 Pre| evaded my mental vision, at last in despair I was about to
273 13 | less than that which no law of place or time limits.
274 1 | come to it? Or who shall lead me to that light and into
275 Pre| this thought altogether, lest, by busying my mind to no
276 7 | be corrupted, and can not lie, nor make what is true,
277 13 | no law of place or time limits. Since, then, nothing is
278 Pre| was knit together by the linking of many arguments, I began
279 17 | obstructed by their long listlessness.~ ~
280 12 | the very life whereby he lives; and so of other like attributes. ~
281 11 | passionless, as you are living, wise, good, blessed, eternal:
282 1 | overwhelm me; and, like a heavy load, they weigh me down. Free
283 1 | is too far from him. He longs to come to you, and your
284 17 | and wretchedness. For it looks, and does not see your beauty.
285 1 | how great an evil! Heavy loss, heavy grief heavy all our
286 1 | which I was made.~O wretched lot of man, when he has lost
287 25 | rulers over many things (Luke xii-42); nay, they shall
288 26 | the heart of man (Isaiah lxiv. 4; i Corinthians ii. 9).
289 7 | of being corrupted, or of lying, is not power, but impotence.
290 Pre| the reverend Archbishop of Lyons, who discharges the apostolic
291 24 | to the character and the magnitude of this good. --If the created
292 1 | for the mourning of all mankind, for the universal lamentation
293 1 | you in it? Again, by what marks, under what form, shall
294 Pre| reasoning with himself, matters of which he is ignorant;
295 25 | shine forth as the sun (Matthew xiii. 43) If swiftness or
296 20 | have an end; but you by no means? For so they actually have
297 26 | that my joy may be full. Meanwhile, let my mind meditate upon
298 26 | of that joy, joy beyond measure will still remain. Hence,
299 26 | Meanwhile, let my mind meditate upon it; let my tongue speak
300 18 | again grief and mourning meet him who seeks for joy and
301 25 | Psalms xxxvi. 8). If it is melody, there the choirs of angels
302 25 | blessed angels and sainted men, where none shall love another
303 Pre| again it wholly evaded my mental vision, at last in despair
304 Pre| work nor the other, which I mentioned above, deserved to be called
305 9 | is that to give him who merits eternal death everlasting
306 21 | all space, that neither midst, nor half, nor any part,
307 1 | not close over me.~Be it mine to look up to your light,
308 1 | possessed in happiness, and miserably forsook his possession;
309 23 | be multiplied nor varied. Moreover, there is a single necessary
310 18 | in it. I fell before my mother conceived me. Truly, in
311 26 | my heart love it; let my mouth talk of it. Let my soul
312 16 | I see you not. In you I move, and in you I have my being;
313 9 | with your justice; yet we must believe that it does not
314 22 | and in which there is any mutable element, is not altogether
315 14 | both contracted by its own narrowness and overcome by your greatness.~
316 1 | consigned to ruin? From a native country into exile, from
317 25 | because it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual
318 25 | or freedom of body, which naught can withstand, delight you,
319 25 | the good! Heart of man, needy heart, heart acquainted
320 19 | nothing exists without you, nevertheless do not exist in space or
321 18 | eternity, which you are, is nowhere and never a part of you
322 17 | and dull, and have been obstructed by their long listlessness.~ ~
323 6 | cognition, --for he who feels obtains knowledge in accordance
324 2 | greater can be conceived. But obviously this is impossible. Hence,
325 1 | for a little while, your occupations; hide yourself, for a time,
326 Pre| of which I had despaired offered itself, so that I eagerly
327 Pre| discharges the apostolic office in Gaul, who instructed
328 10 | nature, but not according to ours, as you are compassionate,
329 1 | gone over my head; they overwhelm me; and, like a heavy load,
330 2 | the object exists. When a painter first conceives of what
331 2 | But after he has made the painting, be both has it in his understanding,
332 1 | afar from your face? He pants to see you, and your face
333 9 | you has granted; these by pardoning the evils you hate. O boundless
334 19 | nothing of your eternity passes away, so that it is not
335 9 | boundless goodness of God how passionately should sinners love you!
336 11 | sparest.~Truly, then, all the paths of the Lord are mercy and
337 13 | Therefore, you, Lord, are peculiarly uncircumscribed and eternal;
338 17 | It smells, and does not perceive your fragrance. It tastes,
339 2 | what he will afterwards perform, he has it in his understanding,
340 2 | because he has not yet performed it. But after he has made
341 20 | which is past.~HENCE, you do permeate and embrace all things.
342 Pre| hands they fell to their perusal. I accordingly gave each
343 1 | them; unburden me, that the pit of iniquities may not close
344 25 | long and sound life that pleases you, there a healthful eternity
345 25 | any not impure, but pure, pleasure, you shall make them drink
346 25 | drink of the river of your pleasures, O God (Psalms xxxvi. 8).~
347 18 | one, but is: in some sort plural, and diverse from itself;
348 7 | power. For, the more he possesses this power, the more powerful
349 1 | and miserably forsook his possession; we suffer want in unhappiness,
350 1 | go unfed. I have come in poverty to the Rich, in misery to
351 9 | that you should work so powerfully that you can not be conceived
352 7 | against him, and the more powerless is he against them.~Therefore,
353 6 | omnipotent, if you has not all powers; or at once compassionate
354 26 | love you in that life.~I pray, O God, to know you, to
355 Pre| PREFACE.~In this brief work the
356 Pre| apostolic authority --to prefix my name to these writings.
357 1 | myself. I sought calm in privacy, and I found tribulation
358 2 | as you knowest it to be profitable, to understand that you
359 26 | this joy which the Lord promises made full? --The blessed
360 Pre| work the author aims at proving in a single argument the
361 Pre| A Discourse.~AFTER I had published, at the solicitous entreaties
362 10 | CHAPTER X.~How he justly punishes and justly spares the wicked. --
363 10 | he does not inflict the punishment deserved.~BUT it is also
364 25 | it is any not impure, but pure, pleasure, you shall make
365 14 | made from nothing? What purity, what certainty, what splendor
366 25 | Psalms xvii. 15). If it is quenching of thirst, they shall be
367 1 | can only look downward; raise me up that I may look upward.
368 25 | sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body (I Corinthians
369 Pre| writing, be welcome to some readers, of this very matter, and
370 Pre| investigates, in a course of silent reasoning with himself, matters of
371 25 | so he will rejoice beyond reckoning in the felicity of God,
372 13 | everywhere. And this is recognised as true of created spirits.
373 17 | It tastes, and does not recognize your sweetness. It touches,
374 18 | behold you. Let my soul recover its strength, and with all
375 Pre| and whatever we believe regarding the divine Being.~Although
376 Pre| therefore, that what I rejoiced to have found, would, if
377 25 | loves another so far as he rejoices in the other's good, and
378 11 | wise be if you did only render goods to the good, and not
379 1 | it was made, except you renew it, and create it anew.
380 14 | Lord my God, my creator and renewer, speak to the desire of
381 Pre| which I was strenuously repelling.~Thinking, therefore, that
382 Pre| there is a supreme good requiring nothing else, which all
383 10 | are just, not because you requite us as we deserve, but because
384 9 | you should be good only by requiting (retribuendo) and not by
385 Pre| exceedingly wearied with resisting its importunity, in the
386 7 | man does," or, "This man rests just as that man does";
387 9 | good only by requiting (retribuendo) and not by sparing, and
388 22 | through something else, returns to non-existence; and what
389 1 | nor find him, unless he reveals himself. God created man
390 Pre| and especially Hugo, the reverend Archbishop of Lyons, who
391 1 | have come in poverty to the Rich, in misery to the Compassionate;
392 25 | fail to be. If honor and riches, God shall make his good
393 9 | impious to suppose this, it is right to believe that you justly
394 3 | conceived not to exist; and rightly. For, if a mind could conceive
395 17 | senses of my soul have grown rigid and dull, and have been
396 1 | With what purpose did he rob us of life, and inflict
397 25 | joint-heirs with Christ (Romans viii. 17).~If true security
398 1 | toilsome business. Yield room for some little time to
399 1 | hurled? Whither consigned to ruin? From a native country into
400 25 | good and faithful servants rulers over many things (Luke xii-42);
401 25 | he rejoices in the other's good, and as, in that perfect
402 25 | innumerable blessed angels and sainted men, where none shall love
403 1 | of Hades! He choked with satiety, we sigh with hunger. He
404 11 | will to punish should be saved, and that those whom you
405 10 | yours; seeing that, as in saving us, whom it would be just
406 1 | heart! speak now to God, saying, I seek your face; your
407 4 | does not exist; although he says these words in his heart,
408 25 | then, the heart of man will scarce contain his joy over his
409 Pre| is, A Soliloquy; but the second, Proslogium, that is, A
410 9 | in the deepest and most secret parts of your goodness is
411 25 | Romans viii. 17).~If true security delights you, undoubtedly
412 7 | to be," though it might seem more proper to say, "It
413 Pre| times that which I sought seemed to be just within my reach,
414 9 | this the concept of justice seems to demand. But, when you
415 5 | be; and he, as the only self-existent being, creates all things
416 Pre| thought they ought not to be sent forth without some title
417 Pre| Grounds of Faith, and its sequel as, Faith Seeking Understanding.
418 18 | toward you. Cleanse, heal, sharpen, enlighten the eye of my
419 25 | there shall the righteous shine forth as the sun (Matthew
420 Pre| though I was unwilling and shunned it, it began to force itself
421 1 | Amid what thoughts am I sighing? I sought blessings, and
422 6 | of his senses; as through sight, of colors; through taste,
423 4 | any or with some foreign, signification. For, God is that than which
424 Pre| investigates, in a course of silent reasoning with himself,
425 17 | sensible manner; but the sinful senses of my soul have grown
426 25 | there the choirs of angels sing forever, before God. If
427 18 | all fell, in whom we all sinned. In him we all lost, who
428 | sit
429 7 | same way, we say, "This man sits just as that man does,"
430 17 | not hear your harmony. It smells, and does not perceive your
431 1 | inmost thoughts. I wished to smile in the joy of my mind, and
432 1 | vices, and obscured by the smoke of wrong-doing, that it
433 Pre| I had published, at the solicitous entreaties of certain brethren,
434 Pre| Monologium, that is, A Soliloquy; but the second, Proslogium,
435 13 | can at the same time be somewhere else as a whole, and yet
436 1 | compelled to frown by the sorrow of my heart. Gladness was
437 9 | the wicked, and make good souls of evil.~Finally, what is
438 25 | nature. If it is a long and sound life that pleases you, there
439 25 | of God, --because it is sown a natural body; it is raised
440 7 | him. Or, by a figure of speech, just as many words are
441 25 | natural body; it is raised a spiritual body (I Corinthians xv.
442 14 | purity, what certainty, what splendor where it is? Assuredly more
443 9 | the river flows, but the spring whence it arises is not
444 14 | see what it desires. It strains to see you more; and sees
445 18 | are these attributes: my straitened understanding cannot see
446 9 | the fountain whence the stream of your compassion flows.~
447 18 | Let my soul recover its strength, and with all its understanding
448 Pre| the thoughts which I was strenuously repelling.~Thinking, therefore,
449 18 | its understanding let it strive toward you, O Lord. What
450 Pre| in the person of one who strives to lift his mind to the
451 1 | accomplished? Whither was I striving? How far have I come? To
452 1 | us. Pity our toilings and strivings toward you since we can
453 1 | blessings, and lo! confusion. I strove toward God, and I stumbled
454 1 | strove toward God, and I stumbled on myself. I sought calm
455 1 | Lord, to penetrate your sublimity, for in no wise do I compare
456 22 | to exist, and unless it subsists through something else,
457 Pre| thoughts, in which I might be successful; then more and more, though
458 1 | forsook his possession; we suffer want in unhappiness, and
459 25 | which are all goods, and it suffices. Desire the simple good
460 6 | a supreme Spirit, who is superior to body? But, if feeling
461 20 | transcend all. And, of a surety, you are before all; for
462 9 | abundant sweetness and what sweet abundance do you well forth
463 1 | bitter by its desolation; sweeten you it, I beseech you, with
464 25 | sun (Matthew xiii. 43) If swiftness or endurance, or freedom
465 25 | who loves them, will not take it away from those who love
466 26 | heart love it; let my mouth talk of it. Let my soul hunger
467 Pre| The difficulty of the task. --The author writes in
468 6 | sight, of colors; through taste, of flavors, --whatever
469 17 | perceive your fragrance. It tastes, and does not recognize
470 1 | God, unless God himself teaches him; nor find him, unless
471 21 | age of time contains all temporal things, so your eternity
472 1 | he was made! O hard and terrible fate! Alas, what has he
473 1 | might be mindful of him, think of him, and love him. The
474 Pre| was strenuously repelling.~Thinking, therefore, that what I
475 4 | be conceived. And he who thoroughly understands this, assuredly
476 7 | these.~He, then, who is thus capable is so not by power,
477 Pre| to this end, and at some times that which I sought seemed
478 Pre| copied by many under these titles, many urged me, and especially
479 Pre| that this book was knit together by the linking of many arguments,
480 1 | so ill with us. Pity our toilings and strivings toward you
481 1 | cares, and put away your toilsome business. Yield room for
482 26 | Not yet, then, have I told or conceived, O Lord, how
483 26 | meditate upon it; let my tongue speak of it. Let my heart
484 17 | sweetness, pleasantness to the touch, beauty, after his ineffable
485 17 | recognize your sweetness. It touches, and does not feel your
486 Pre| have written the following treatise, in the person of one who
487 1 | in privacy, and I found tribulation and grief, in my inmost
488 18 | and lo, I hunger more. I tried to rise to the light of
489 23 | separately, this is all the Trinity at once, Father, Son, and
490 1 | forget us; how long do you turn your face from us? When
491 1 | down. Free me from them; unburden me, that the pit of iniquities
492 1 | removed from God! What have I undertaken? What have I accomplished?
493 1 | come to you; let me not go unfed. I have come in poverty
494 1 | possession; we suffer want in unhappiness, and feel a miserable longing,
495 1 | of all mankind, for the universal lamentation of the sons
496 11 | do will; and that alone unjust which you do not will. So,
497 18 | that in no respect are you unlike yourself; rather you are
498 26 | the joy of my heart, speak unto my soul and tell me whether
499 1 | raise me up that I may look upward. My iniquities have gone
500 Pre| under these titles, many urged me, and especially Hugo,