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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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
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Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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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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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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Silence is God's first language.
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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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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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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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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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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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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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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away you will never get it back.
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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
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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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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
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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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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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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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