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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

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
Desire
Without
Longer

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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Never listen to accounts of the frailty of others and if anyone should complain to you of another, humbly ask him not to speak about him at all.
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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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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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Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
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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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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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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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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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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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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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