Saint Theresa of SpainDutton, 1909 - 343 páginas |
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Página 53 - But we all behold as in a mirror the glory of the Lord with open face, and are changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the spirit of the Lord.
Página 32 - No me mueve, mi Dios, para quererte, el cielo que me tienes prometido, ni me mueve el infierno tan temido para dejar por eso de ofenderte.
Página 32 - Muéveme, en fin, tu amor, y en tal manera que aunque no hubiera cielo, yo te amara y aunque no hubiera infierno, te temiera. No me tienes que dar porque te quiera, pues aunque lo que espero no esperara lo mismo que te quiero te quisiera.
Página 100 - The girdle of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the sword of the Spirit, the helmet of hope — each and all are needful.
Página 134 - ... offered the site for a convent to which there was only one objection, there was no water supply; happily, a Friar Antonio came up with a twig in his hand, stopped at a certain spot and appeared to be making the sign of the cross; but Teresa says,
Página 75 - The older I grow — and I now stand on the brink of eternity — the more comes back to me the first sentence in the catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes : ' What is the chief end of man ? To glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever.
Página 32 - Muévenme tus afrentas y tu muerte. Muéveme en fin tu amor de tal manera, Que aunque no hubiera cielo yo te amara, Y aunque no hubiera infierno te temiera. No me tienes que dar porque te quiera, Porque aunque lo que espero no esperara, Lo mismo que te quiero, te quisiera.
Página 78 - ... intellectual vision. That drunkenness illuminated him during his whole life yet without incapacitating him for any needful attention to things by the way. He lived in poverty because he did not need riches, but he died without leaving a debt. He was a steady not a fitful worker, and his wife said of him she never saw his hands still unless he was reading or asleep.
Página 263 - ... we called Nazareth, on the eve of Pascua of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost), I was thinking of the great kindness the Lord had shown me on that same day twenty years earlier, when great impetus and fervour of spirit came upon me, and held me suspended in the air above the earth.1 In this moment of great recollection I heard from our Lord that which I will now relate : that I was to tell those Discalced Fathers four things, which they must keep and hold fast, by means of which this religion (Order)...
Página 275 - At which Teresa (humorous even in her prayers) sighed again, and said — " Ah, dear Lord ! and that is why Thou hast so few ! " They got safely across the river, but presently Teresa saw the cart containing the four nuns overturned, and the terrified women in imminent danger of falling down the precipice. They were saved, however, by the manifestly miraculous strength of the young driver. At last, 26th January, they entered the grand 6ld city of Burgos, known to every traveller by its magnificent...