Can someone please translate this paragraph?
This is an extract from 'El Camino' by Miguel Delibes. I have a general understanding but some it I just can't work out. 'La Guindilla' is a nickname for one of the characters:
Como otras muchas mujeres, la Guindilla mayor despreció el amor mientras ningún hombre le propuso amar y ser amada. A veces, la Guindilla se reía de que el único amor de su vida hubiera nacido precisamente de su celo moralizador. Sin su afán de recorrer los montes durante las anochecidas de los domingos no hubiera soliviantado a los mozos del pueblo, y, sin soliviantar a los mozos del pueblo, no hubiera dado a Quino oportunidad de defenderla y sin esta oportunidad, jamás se hubiera conmovido el seco corazón de la Guindilla mayor, demasiado ceñido y cerrado entre las costillas. Era, la de su primer y único amor, una cadena de causalidad y causalidad que si pensaba en ella la abrumaba. Son infinitos los caminos del Señor.
If someone could translate this I would be really grateful!
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This is how it is translated......(Like many other women, the most despised Chilli love while he proposed no man to love and be loved. Sometimes Chilli laughed that the only love of his life had been born precisely from their moralistic zeal. Without your desire to travel the mountains during the evening of Sunday had not aroused the servants of the people, and, without stirring to the lads of the village had not given opportunity to defend Quino and without this opportunity would never have touched the Chillies dry heart of the greatest, too tight and closed between the ribs. It was, of his first and only love, a chain of causation and causality that if I thought she was overwhelmed. Are infinite ways of the Lord).
"Like many other women, the most despised Chilli love while he proposed no man to love and be loved. Sometimes Chilli laughed that the only love of his life had been born precisely from their moralistic zeal. Without your desire to travel the mountains during the evening of Sunday had not aroused the servants of the people, and, without stirring to the lads of the village had not given opportunity to defend Quino and without this opportunity would never have touched the Chillies dry heart of the greatest, too tight and closed between the ribs. It was, of his first and only love, a chain of causation and causality that if I thought she was overwhelmed. Are infinite ways of the Lord."
That is a rough translation of your paragraph. Hope this helps! 
I suggest maybe also putting up your attempt and that allows people that are fluent in Spanish and English to correct what you've worked out yourself
