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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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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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In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction.
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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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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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Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.
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Let my soul live as if separated from my body.
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Silence is God's first language.
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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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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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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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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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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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Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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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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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light
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There is nothing better or morenecessary than 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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