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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
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Humans
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World
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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out 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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In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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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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Silence is God's first language.
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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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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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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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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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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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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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The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself...this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is transformed in love.
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Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.
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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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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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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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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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