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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

John of the Cross

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John of the Cross
Age: 49 †
Born: 1542
Born: June 24
Died: 1591
Died: December 14
Carmelite Friar
Catholic Priest
Poet
Saint
Writer
Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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Life
Judged
Evening
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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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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Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
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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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God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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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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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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My sole occupation is love.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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The centre of the soul is God and, when the soul has attained to Him according to the whole capacity of its being, which is the strength and virtue of the soul, it will have reached the last and the deep centre of the soul, which will be when with all its powers it loves and understands and enjoys God.
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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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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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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
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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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Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.
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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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