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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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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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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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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 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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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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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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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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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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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
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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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My sole occupation is love.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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Silence is God's first language.
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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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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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