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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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Shall
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.
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A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.
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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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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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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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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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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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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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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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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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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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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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Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.
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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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