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Carmelite Friar Inspirational Quotes (56)

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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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Never relax, for you will not attain to the possession of true spiritual delights if first you do not learn to deny your every desire.
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Silence is God's first language.
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They say, God told me, or God replied to me. And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
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The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.
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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.
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The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself...this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is transformed in love.
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Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.
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To reach satisfaction in all desire its possession in nothing, To come to the knowledge of all desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to possess all desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all desire to be nothing.
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However high be your endeavors, unless you renounce and subjugate your own will - unless you forget yourself and all that pertains to yourself - not one step will you advance on the road to perfection.
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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.
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Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.
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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity, who will have it wholly occupied with outward duties, that its light may shine before the world: these persons have no conception of the fibres and the unseen root whence the sap is drawn, and which nourish the fruit.
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However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
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