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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.
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
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Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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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 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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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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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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God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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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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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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