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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

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
Enlightened
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Sorrow
Confidence
Suffering
Instructed
Strengthened
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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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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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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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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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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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Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.
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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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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him 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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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.
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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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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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