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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
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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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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My sole occupation is love.
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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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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away you will never get it back.
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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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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.
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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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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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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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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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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