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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

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
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Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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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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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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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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Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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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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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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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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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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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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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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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 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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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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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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