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When there is no love, pour in love and you shall draw out love.

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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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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Desolation is a file, and the endurance of darkness is preparation for great light.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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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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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.
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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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Live as though only God and yourself were in this world, so that your heart may not be detained by anything human.
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At the end of our life, we shall all be judged by charity.
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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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For true devotion must issue from the heart, and consist in the truth and substances alone of what is represented by spiritual things all the rest is affection and attachment proceeding from imperfection and in order that one may pass to any kind of perfection it is necessary for such desires to be killed.
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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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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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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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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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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.
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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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