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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.

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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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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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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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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Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.
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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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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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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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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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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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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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The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.
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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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