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Exegesis on the Soul
Virginity and Defilement (5)
When he saw her in this state, he thought her worthy of his mercy. She had many afflictions for having abandoned her house.
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 16: That by virtue of this work a sinner truly turned and called to contemplation cometh sooner to perfection than by any other work; and by it soonest may get of God forgiveness of sins (4)
But what thereof? Came she therefore down from the height of desire into the deepness of her sinful life, and searched in the foul stinking fen and du...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 16: That by virtue of this work a sinner truly turned and called to contemplation cometh sooner to perfection than by any other work; and by it soonest may get of God forgiveness of sins (2)
Lo! here may men see what a privy pressing of love may purchase of our Lord, before all other works that man may think. And yet I grant well, that...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXIII (4)
If sooner were the power exhausted in thee Of sinning more, than thee the hour surprised Of that good sorrow which to God reweds us, How hast thou com...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto III (6)
After I had my body lacerated By these two mortal stabs, I gave myself Weeping to Him, who willingly doth pardon. Horrible my iniquities had been;...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 16: That by virtue of this work a sinner truly turned and called to contemplation cometh sooner to perfection than by any other work; and by it soonest may get of God forgiveness of sins (3)
Surely as Mary did. She, although she might not feel the deep hearty sorrow of her sins—for why, all her lifetime she had them with her whereso she we...
The Masnavi
The Villager who invited the Townsman to visit him (1-10)
The house of 'Isa was the banquet of men of heart, Ho! afflicted one, quit not this door! From all sides the people ever thronged, Many blind and...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (1-10)
Men subdued by women's wiles. In this manner she pleaded with gentle coaxing, How could his firmness and endurance abide When even without tears she...
The Masnavi
Bahlol and the Darvesh (28-35)
In the view of that faithful one his children's deaths Why, therefore, should he make prayers Unless he pray for what is pleasing to God? These prayer...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 16: That by virtue of this work a sinner truly turned and called to contemplation cometh sooner to perfection than by any other work; and by it soonest may get of God forgiveness of sins (1)
LOOK that no man think it presumption, that he that is the wretchedest sinner of this life dare take upon him after the time be that he have lawfully...
The Masnavi
The Man who received a Pension from the Prefect of Tabriz (1-11)
The poor man's regrets for having placed his trust in man and not in God. When he recovered himself he said, "O God, I have sinned in looking for aid...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXX (5)
The ice, that was about my heart congealed, To air and water changed, and in my anguish Through mouth and eyes came gushing from my breast. She, on...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto III (5)
"A perfect life and merit high in-heaven A lady o'er us," said she, "by whose rule Down in your world they vest and veil themselves, That until death...
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto XXIII (2)
I do not think that so to merest rind Could Erisichthon have been withered up By famine, when most fear he had of it. Thinking within myself I said:...
Divine Comedy
Inferno: Canto II (5)
In her entreaty she besought Lucia, And said, "Thy faithful one now stands in need Of thee, and unto thee I recommend him." Lucia, foe of all that...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 38: How and why that short prayer pierceth heaven (3)
See by ensample. He that is thy deadly enemy, an thou hear him so afraid that he cry in the height of his spirit this little word “fire,” or this...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 22: Of the wonderful love that Christ had to man in person of all sinners truly turned and called to the grace of contemplation (2)
Surely whoso will look verily in the story of the gospel, he shall find many wonderful points of perfect love written of her to our ensample, and as e...
The Complete Sayings of Jesus
XXXI. Jairus’ Daughter Healed—the Woman Who Had Spent Her All on Physicians—the Two Blind Men (19)
He looked about to see her that had done this thing. The woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and told him the truth,...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXXI (3)
Faces I saw of charity persuasive, Embellished by His light and their own smile, And attitudes adorned with every grace. The general form of Paradise...
Cloud of Unknowing
Chapter 16: That by virtue of this work a sinner truly turned and called to contemplation cometh sooner to perfection than by any other work; and by it soonest may get of God forgiveness of sins (5)
Insomuch, that she had ofttimes little special remembrance, whether that ever she had been a sinner or none. Yea, and full ofttimes I hope that she wa...
Book of Jubilees
Chapter XXXIII (5)
And she was ashamed because of him, and released her hand from him, and lie fled.
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