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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.

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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Shall
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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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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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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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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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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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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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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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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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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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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light
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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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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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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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Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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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