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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
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Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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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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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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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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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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They say, God told me, or God replied to me. And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.
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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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Silence is God's first language.
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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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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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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Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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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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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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