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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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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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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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God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.
John of the Cross
God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
John of the Cross
Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
John of the Cross
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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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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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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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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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
Beloved, all that is harsh and difficult I want for myself, and all that is gentle and sweet for thee.
John of the Cross
When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.
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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.
John of the Cross
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
John of the Cross
Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
John of the Cross
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.
John of the Cross
