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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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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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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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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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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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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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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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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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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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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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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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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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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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
John of the Cross
He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.
John of the Cross
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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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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