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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
Catholic Priest
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Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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Silence is God's first language.
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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
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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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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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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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Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.
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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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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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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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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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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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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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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light
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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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He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
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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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