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Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.

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
Anything
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Human
Humans
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World
Detained
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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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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.
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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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Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
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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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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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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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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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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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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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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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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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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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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light
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My sole occupation is love.
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In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
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