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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
Poet
Saint
Writer
Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
Wherever
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Beauty
Thicket
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Thickets
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Glance
Things
Glances
World
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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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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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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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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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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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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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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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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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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I have said this to explain the stanza that follows, in which the soul replies to those who call in question its holy tranquillity, who will have it wholly occupied with outward duties, that its light may shine before the world: these persons have no conception of the fibres and the unseen root whence the sap is drawn, and which nourish the fruit.
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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
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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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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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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out 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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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
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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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