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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
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Saint John of the Cross
Juan de la Cruz
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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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If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.
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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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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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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away you will never get it back.
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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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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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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 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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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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