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God leads every soul by a separate path.

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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Individual
Soul
Every
Separate
Leads

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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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My sole occupation is love.
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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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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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To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
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The centre of the soul is God and, when the soul has attained to Him according to the whole capacity of its being, which is the strength and virtue of the soul, it will have reached the last and the deep centre of the soul, which will be when with all its powers it loves and understands and enjoys God.
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Whoever does not seek the cross of Christ doesn't seek the glory of Christ.
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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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Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no 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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The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.
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My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.
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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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God passes through the thicket of the world, and wherever His glance falls He turns all things to beauty.
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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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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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Silence is God's first language.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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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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God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.
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