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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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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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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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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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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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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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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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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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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Silence is God's first language.
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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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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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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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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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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
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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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The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself...this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is transformed in love.
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