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My sole occupation is 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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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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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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God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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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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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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A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.
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Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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Silence is God's first language.
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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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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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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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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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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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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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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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