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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
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Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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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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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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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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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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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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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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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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My sole occupation is love.
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.
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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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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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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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