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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.

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
Opportunity
Away
Back
Never
Like
Lets
Bird
Lose
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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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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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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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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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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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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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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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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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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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Silence is God's first language.
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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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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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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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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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